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P/N 620-000134-500 McDATA OPENconnectors Command Line Interface USER MANUAL
Glossary
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Ethernet A widely implemented local area network (LAN) protocol that uses a
bus or star topology and served as the basis for the IEEE 802.3
standard, which specifies the physical and software layers. Baseband
LAN allows multiple station access to the transmission medium at
will without prior coordination and which avoids or resolves
contention.
event log Record of significant events that have occurred on the director, such
as FRU failures, degraded operation, and port problems.
expansion port The physical interface on a Fibre Channel switch within a fabric, that
attaches to an expansion port (E_Port) on another Fibre Channel
switch to form a multiswitch fabric. See also segmented E_Port.
F
F_Port See fabric port.
fabric Entity that interconnects N_Ports and is capable of routing
(switching) Fibre Channel frames using the destination ID
information in the Fibre Channel frame header accompanying the
frames.
fabric port Physical interface within the fabric that connects to an N_Port
through a point-to-point full duplex connection.
failover The automatic and nondisruptive transition of functions from an
active FRU that has failed to a backup FRU.
FAN Fabric address notification.
FCP A standard Fibre Channel protocol used to run SCSI over Fibre
Channel.
fiber Physical media types supported by the Fibre Channel specification,
such as optical fiber, twisted pair, and coaxial cable.
Fibre Channel Integrated set of standards recognized by ANSI which defines
specific protocols for flexible information transfer. Logically, a
point-to-point serial data channel, structured for high performance.