Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. A regulatory group that maintains all assigned and registered Internet numbers, such as IP and multicast addresses. See also NIC.
Internal BGP. A BGP configuration in which sessions are established between routers in the same autonomous systems (ASs).
Internet Control Message Protocol. Used in router discovery, ICMP allows router advertisements that enable a host to discover addresses of operating routers on the subnet.
See IRDP.
Integrated Drive Electronics. Type of hard disk on the Routing Engine.
International Data Encryption Algorithm. An algorithm that uses a 128-bit key and is one of the methods at the heart of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). IDEA is patented by Ascom Tech AG and is popular in Europe.
Initial BGP neighbor state where the local router is refusing all incoming session requests.
Intrusion detection service. A service that inspects all inbound and outbound network activity and identifies suspicious patterns that may indicate a network or system attack from someone attempting to break into or compromise a system.
International Electrotechnical Commission. See ISO.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. An international professional society for electrical engineers.
Internet Engineering Task Force. An international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
Information frame used to transfer data in sequentially numbered logical link control protocol data units (LPDUs) between link stations.
Internet Group Management Protocol. Used with multicast protocols to determine whether group members are present.
Interior gateway protocol, such as IS-IS, OSPF, and RIP.
Internet Key Exchange. Part of IPSec that provides ways to securely negotiate the shared private keys that the AH and ESP portions of IPSec need to function properly. IKE employs Diffie-Hellman methods and is optional in IPSec (the shared keys can be entered manually at the endpoints).
Integrated Local Management Interface. A specification developed by the ATM Forum that incorporates network management capabilities into the ATM user-to-network interface (UNI) and provides bidirectional exchange of management information between UNI management entities (UMEs).
International Mobile Station Equipment Identity. A unique code used to identify an individual mobile station to a GSM network.
Installation of routes from the routing protocols into a routing table.
International Mobile Subscriber Identity. Information that identifies a particular subscriber to a GSM network.
International Mobile Telecommunications 2000. Global standard for third-generation (3G) wireless communications, defined by a set of interdependent ITU Recommendations. IMT-2000 provides a framework for worldwide wireless access by linking the diverse systems of terrestrial and/or satellite-based networks.
Default JUNOS software routing table for IPv4 unicast routers.
Default JUNOS software routing table for storing the multicast cache for active data streams in the network.
Default JUNOS software routing table for storing unicast IPv4 routes specifically used to prevent forwarding loops in a mulitcast network.
Default JUNOS software routing table for storing the egress IP address of an MPLS label-switched path.
Default JUNOS software routing table for storing information generated by the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).
Default JUNOS software routing table for storing unicast IPv6 routes.
Metric value used in distance-vector protocols to represent an unusable route. For RIP, the infinity metric is 16.
In MPLS, the first router in a label-switched path (LSP). See also egress router.
OSPF adjacency state where the local router has received a hello packet but bidirectional communication is not yet established.
JUNOS software command that allows a user to reorder terms in a routing policy or a firewall filter, or change the order of a policy chain.
Routing table that shows route flows through BGP.
See ILMI.
See IDE.
See ISDN.
See IQ.
Routing of packets among different autonomous systems (ASs). See also EBGP.
In a BGP route reflection, the redistribution of routing information by a route reflector system to all nonclient peers (BGP peers not in the cluster). See also route reflection.
Value added to all received routes in a distance-vector network before placing them into the routing table. The JUNOS software uses a cost of 1 for this value.
Routes that are in the routing table because an interface has been configured with an IP address. Also called direct routes.
In IS-IS, the network entity that sends and receives packets and can also route packets.
See IBGP.
Another name for the fxp1 and fxp2 interfaces that provide communications between the Routing Engine and the Packet Forwarding Engine.
See IDEA.
See IMEI.
See IMSI.
See IMT-2000.
See ISO.
See ITU-T.
See IANA.
See ICMP.
See IETF.
See IGMP.
See IKE.
Juniper Networks ASIC responsible for using the forwarding table to make routing decisions within the Packet Forwarding Engine. The Internet Processor ASIC also implements firewall filters.
See IP.
See ISAKMP.
See ISP.
VPN that provides connectivity between separate autonomous systems (ASs) with separate border edge routers. It is used by VPN customers who have connections to several different ISPs, or different connections to the same ISP in different geographic regions, each of which has a different AS.
Routing of packets within a single autonomous system (AS). See also IBGP.
See IDS.
Juniper Networks ASIC responsible for segmenting data packets into 64-byte J-cells and for queuing result cells prior to transmission.
Internet Protocol. The protocol used for sending data from one point to another on the Internet.
See IPCP.
IP Control Protocol. Protocol that establishes and configures IP over the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP).
IP Security. A standard way to add security to Internet communications. The secure aspects of IPSec are usually implemented in three parts: the authentication header (AH), the Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), and the Internet Key Exchange (IKE).
See IPSec.
Intelligent queuing. M-series and T-series routing platform interfaces that offer granular quality-of-service (QoS) capabilities; extensive statistics on packets and bytes that are transmitted, received, or dropped; and embedded diagnostic tools.
ICMP Router Discovery Protocol. A protocol that enables a host to determine the address of a router that it can use as a default gateway.
Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol. A protocol that allows the receiver of a message to obtain a public key and use digital certificates to authenticate the sender's identity. ISAKMP is designed to be key exchange independent; that is, it supports many different key exchanges. See also IKE and Oakley.
Integrated Services Digital Network. A set of digital communications standards that enable the transmission of information over existing twisted-pair telephone lines at higher speeds than standard analog telephone service. An ISDN interface provides multiple B-channels (bearer channels) for data and one D-channel for control and signaling information. See also B-channel and D-channel.
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System. A link-state, interior gateway routing protocol for IP networks that also uses the shortest-path-first (SPF) algorithm to determine routes.
International Organization for Standardization. A worldwide federation of standards bodies that promotes international standardization and publishes international agreements as International Standards.
Internet service provider. Company that provides access to the Internet and related services.
International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization (formerly known as the CCITT). Group supported by the United Nations that makes recommendations and coordinates the development of telecommunications standards for the entire world.