Meanings

In article , lissy6098 wrote: :Can someone help me finding out what these following words mean or what :they are. I'm new to all of this stuff and have been looking on the :internet for hours on what they are. Please help if you can.

:IOS Level

IOS is the operating system for the majority of Cisco equipment. There is no official term 'IOS Level', but 'level' could refer to the software revision, particularily the major and minor versions together ignoring the release number. For example, 12.1T

:IOS Module Name

Never heard of it.

:IOS Image

An IOS "image" is a particular IOS binary executable. Usually any particular image will only execute on a small range of models.

:IOS Features

What it sounds like -- the features that are supported by a particular IOS image.

:BootFlash Module

BootFlash is non-volatile memory that is used to store a boot image. The technology involved was historically "flash memory".

:Flash Mem Size

The size of a particular flash memory module; alternately, the amount of flash memory that is required in order to store a particular image so that the device can make use of it. If one is trying to use an IOS image that requires 20 megabytes to store and one only has 16 megabytes available, then one will not be able to use the image (unless one can remove older files to free up room.)

:Num Flash SIMMs

The number of Single Inline Memory Modules (SIMMs) used for flash memory.

:DRAMM Size

The quantity of Dynamic Random Access Memory; particularily, the minimum amount of memory requires to run a particular image successfully.

:NAT Range

An IP address range used for Network Address Translation. You should be able to find a definition of Network Address Translation yourself.

:Interface

The US EPA defines interface as,

The common boundary between two substances such as a water and a solid, water and a gas, or two liquids such as water and oil.

The usage for networks follows.

:Subnet Mask

That's in the Cisco glossaries.

:Has Hub

Never heard of that as a phrase. The references I find via google groups are part of a phrase in which "hub" is an adjective ("has hub caps"), or the messages are not in correct English and should read "is a hub" or "has a hub".

:SNMP Read :SNMP Write :SNMP Traps Enabled

SNMP is the Simple Network Monitoring Protocol. A 'read' is a use of the protocol to ask a device to report the current value of something. A 'write' is a use of the protocol to command a device to change a value. The protocol provides for asynchronous notification of various kinds of events; the asynchronous notification is known as a 'trap'.

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I heard some people using this term when they referenced an IOS image name. I consider this to be contradictive since all IOS images I've seen so far where monolithic and *not* modular. There is some likelihood that IOS images are built from a bunch of separately named "modular" compilation units. May be, such module names have some significance to Cisco's programmers.