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Glossary
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Topology
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The place where you have all things (node, drawing, link...)
Node
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A Virtual Machine (Dynamips, IOU, Qemu, VPCS...), a cloud, a builtin device (switch, hub...)
Appliance
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A model for a node. When you drag an appliance to the topology a node is created.
Appliance template
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A file (.gns3a) use for creating new node model.
Drawing
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Drawing are visual element not used by the network emulation. Like
text, images, rectangle... They are pure SVG elements.
Adapter
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The physical network interface. The adapter can contain multiple ports.
Port
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A port is an opening on network adapter that cable plug into.
For example a VM can have a serial and an ethernet adapter plugged in.
The ethernet adapter can have 4 ports.
Controller
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The central server managing everything in GNS3. A GNS3 controller
will manage multiple GNS3 compute node.
Compute
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The process running on each server with GNS3. The GNS3 compute node
is controlled by the GNS3 controller.
Symbol
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Symbol are the icon used for nodes.
Scene
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The drawing area
Filter
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Packet filter this allow to add latency or packet drop.