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Glossary: Intel® FCoE/DCB User Guide
This Glossary defines terms, abbreviations, and acronyms that apply directly to Intel® Ethernet FCoE.
TERMS DEFINITIONS
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
Boot Targets
The server-side system in an FCoE SAN configuration. The FCoE Boot Target system hosts the FCoE target
drives which are accessed by an FCoE Boot initiator.
CEE Converged Enhanced Ethernet
Data Link
Interface
Interface to the chip at the MAC layer.
DCB Data Center Bridging
DCBX DCB Exchange Protocol
DDP Direct Data Placement
Descriptor
Queues
Descriptor queues are used by software to submit work requests like send and receive and get completion
status.
DLL Dynamic Linked Libraries
DPT Diamond Peak Technology
ETS Enhanced Transmission Selection
FC Fibre Channel
FCF Fibre Channel Forwarder
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
HBA Host Bus Adapter
IPC Inter-Process Communication
IRP IO Request Packet
iSCSI Internet SCSI
LLDP Link Layer Discovery Protocol, IEEE802.1AB
LUN
Logical Unit Number. LUN is the identifier of a device which is being addressed by protocols such as Fibre
Channel and iSCSI.
MPA Marker Based PDU Alignment. This protocol runs on top of TCP and provides framing and data integrity.
Native OS Stack
OS stack that represents a particular function implemented purely in software (for example, native OS
TCP/IP stack, native OS iSCSI stack).
Native TCP/IP
Stack
TCP/IP stack implemented in software and provided as part of the operating system.
NFS Network File System
NIC Network Interface Controller
ODM Offload Device Manager
Offload Stack Components that make up the offload stack.
OPS Offload Protocol Switch
Packet Buffers
Packet buffers are hardware FIFOs that either receive or transmit packets. Each packet buffer can
be associated with one or more traffic classes
PCI Peripheral Components Interface