Cyclades User's Guide Manual Do Utilizador

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cannot be equated to bandwidth unless the number of bits per 
symbol is known.

A measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel 
when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.

Ability to detect communication failure transparently, and switch 
from one LAN connection to another. The Linux bonding driver 
has the ability to detect link failure and reroute network traffic 
around a failed link in a manner transparent to the application. It 
also has the ability (with certain network switches) to aggregate 
network traffic in all working links to achieve higher throughput. 
The bonding driver accomplishes this by enslaving all of the 
Ethernet ports in the bond to the same Ethernet MAC address, 
which ensures the proper routing of packets across the links.

To start a computer so that it is ready to run programs for the user. 
A PC can be booted either by turning its power on, (Cold Boot) or 
by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (Warm Boot).

Bootstrap Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol allowing a 

BOOTP 

server node to allocate IP addresses to

 diskless work stations 

at startup.

CAT5 

Category 5. A cabling standard for use on networks at speeds up 
to 100 Mbits including FDDI and 100base-T. The 5 refers to the 
number of turns per inch with which the cable is constructed. 

Terminal used to configure network devices at boot (start-up) 
time. Also used to refer to the keyboard, video and mouse user 
interface to a server.

A computed value which depends on the contents of a block of 
data and which is transmitted or stored along with the data in 
order to detect corruption of the data. The receiving system 
recomputes the checksum based upon the received data and 
compares this value with the one sent with the data. If the two 
values are the same, the receiver has some confidence that the 
data was received correctly.