Lexmark 3455 - Manual (Page 175)

175
Glossary
Abend Verb which means to end a process abnormally.
AFP Advanced Function Presentation or Printing.
AIX IBM’s implementation of the UNIX operating system. The RISC
System/6000, among others, runs the AIX operating system.
BOOTP BOOTstrap Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol that enables a
workstation on a network to find its IP address.
Form
Definition
Form definitions define, among other things, the aspects about
how data is placed on the physical page, from which bin the paper
is to be fed, the number of sides of the sheet to be printed
(simplex/duplex), and the print direction and rotation of the data.
Gateway The connecting device between the LAN and other equipment
from minicomputers to main frames.
Host The main computer on a network allowing the use of data files
and programs to all workstations.
IP Address A 32-bit address defined by the Internet Protocol RFC 791
usually represented in dotted decimal notation, e.g.
157.184.67.102.
IPDS IBM’s Intelligent Printer Data Stream.
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
The largest possible unit of data that can be sent on a given
physical medium in a single frame on a LAN.
Netmask See Subnet mask.
PPR/PPD Page Printer Requester/Page Printer Daemon
A non-standard bi-directional TCP/IP protocol allowing IPDS
data to be transmitted over a TCP/IP network.