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Glossary
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VM
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A Virtual Machine (Dynamips, IOU, Qemu, VPCS...)
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Adapter
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The physical network interface. The adapter can contain multiple ports.
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Port
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A port is an opening on network adapter that cable plug into.
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For example a VM can have a serial and an ethernet adapter plugged in.
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The ethernet adapter can have 4 ports.
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2016-03-11 14:24:48 +00:00
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Controller
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The central server managing everything in GNS3. A GNS3 controller
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will manage multiple GNS3 compute node.
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2016-03-11 14:24:48 +00:00
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2016-04-18 18:55:22 +00:00
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Compute
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2016-04-18 18:55:22 +00:00
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The process running on each server with GNS3. The GNS3 compute node
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is controlled by the GNS3 controller.
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