| ABI |
Application Binary Interface |
| ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASIC |
Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| Bash |
Bourne Again SHell |
| bcmcmd |
Broadcom shell commands |
| BFD |
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection |
| bin |
binary |
| BM |
Behavioural Model |
| brcm |
BroadCom |
| cat |
concatenate |
| cd |
Change directory |
| CIR |
Committed Information Rate |
| COPP |
COntrol Panel Policing |
| CRM |
Case Resource manager |
| CRUD |
Create, Read, Update, Delete |
| decap |
Decapsulation |
| DIP |
Destination IP |
| DSCP |
Differentiated Services Code Point |
| DUT |
Device Under Test |
| ECMP |
Equal Cost Multi Path ROUTING |
| ECN |
Explicit Congestion Notification |
| ERSPAN |
Encapsulated RSPAN |
| EUI |
Extended Unique Identifiers |
| EVPN |
Ethernet VPN |
| FDB |
Firebird relational Data Base |
| FDB |
Forwarding Data Base |
| FHS |
Filesystem Heirarchy Standard |
| FIB |
Forwarding Information Base |
| FPM |
Forward Plane Manager |
| FRR |
Free Range Router |
| GDB |
GNU DeBugger |
| GNU |
Gnu's Not Unix |
| GRE |
Generic Routing Encapsulation |
| GRE |
Generic Routing Encapsulation |
| Grep |
Globally search a Regular Expression and Print |
| GRUB |
GNU GRUB |
| IPv6 ND |
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Neighbor Discovery (ND) |
| JSON |
Java Script Object Notation |
| LAG |
Link Aggregation Group |
| LBD |
Linux Bonding Driver |
| LLDP |
Link Layer Discovery Protocol |
| MD/md |
Mark Down |
| MIB |
Management Information Base |
| MLAG |
(MC/LAG) Multi chasis Link Aggregation Group |
| MMU |
Memory Management Unit |
| NDP |
Network Discovery Protocol |
| NOS |
Network Open Switch |
| NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
| OAM |
OCP Accelerator Module |
| OCP |
Open Compute Project |
| ODM |
Original Design Manufacturer |
| OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OID |
Object Identifiers |
| ONIE |
Open Network Installer Environment |
| Orchagent |
Orchestration Agent |
| OS 10 |
Open Switch 10 |
| OUI |
Organizationally Unique Identifiers |
| P4 |
Programming Protocol |
| PFC |
Priority Flow Control |
| PL |
Pull Request |
| pmon |
Platform monitor |
| ps |
process |
| PTF |
Packet Test Framework |
| PTP |
Precision Time Protocol |
| Radvd |
Router ADVertisement Daemon |
| RDMA |
Remote Direct Memory Access |
| Redis |
REmote DIctionary Server |
| RESTful |
REpresentational State Transfer |
| RIF |
Router InterFace |
| RIF |
Router Information Field |
| RoCE |
RDMA over Converged Ethernet |
| RSPAN |
Remote Switch Port ANalyzer |
| sbin |
System binary |
| SCP |
Secure Copy Protocol |
| SDK |
Software Development Kits |
| SDM |
Switch Device Manager |
| SDN |
Software Defined Networking |
| SFTP |
Simple File Transfer Protocl |
| SFTP |
SSH File Transfer Protocol / Secure File Transfer Protocol |
| SIP |
Session Initiation Protocol |
| SIP |
Source IP |
| SONiC |
Software for Open Netwroking in Cloud |
| SPAN |
Switch Port ANalyzer |
| su |
switch user |
| SwSS |
Switch State Service |
| TBD |
To Be Discussed |
| teamd |
Team Driver |
| tor |
The Onion Router |
| ToRRouter |
Top of the Rack Router/Switcher |
| UML |
Unified Modeling Language |
| usr |
User or Unique System Resource |
| UTF |
Unicode Transformation Format |
| vPC |
Virtual Port Channel |
| VRF |
Virtual Routing and Forwarding |
| VTEPs |
VXLAN Tunnel End Points |
| vxlan |
Virtual Extensible LAN |
| WRED |
Weighted random early detection |
| yaml |
YAML Ain't Markup Language |
| ZTP |
Zero Touch Provisioning |