Dell Intel PRO Family of Adapters User Manual
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PDU
Protocol Data Unit
PFC
Priority Flow Control
Raw Packet
Driver
Standard Ethernet MAC driver.
RDMA
Remote Direct Memory Access
RDMAC
RDMA Consortium
RSS
Receive Side Scaling is a mechanism for hardware to distribute receive packets to queues that
are associated with a specific processor core and thereby distributing the processing load.
RX
Receive
SAN
Storage Area Network
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
TLV
Type Length Value
Transport
Interface
Interface to the chip at the transport layer.
TX
Transmit
ULP
Upper Layer Protocol
VBD
Virtual Bus Driver. The VBD exposes two virtual physical devices on a single physical device and
enables sharing of LAN and SAN traffic on a common Ethernet port.
VFT
Virtual Fabric Tagging. This is a Fibre Channel defined extended frame header.
VLAN
Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a group of hosts with a common set of requirements that communicate as if
they were attached to the same broadcast domain, regardless of their physical location.
VMDq
Virtual Machine Device Queues
VT
Vanderpool Technology, also known as Virtualization. VT is an Intel-wide effort to support multiple virtual
platforms on a single physical platform. This requires both software and hardware support to implement
efficiently.
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