CTWUG Glossary
From CTWUG Wiki
- CTWUG
- Cape Town Wireless User Group as defined by the Constitution.
- Wugger
- A CTWUG member as defined by the Constitution.
- CTWUG owned high site
- A high site whose network equipment is entirely owned by CTWUG, and whose building owner has a working relationship with CTWUG granting access to the premises.
- Private high site
- A high site whose network equipment is partly or entirely owned by a private entity other than CTWUG.
- Area high site
- A high site where 100% of traffic is either originated or terminated by the area in question.
- Peer high site
- A high site directly connected to another high site by way of a Point-to-Point link.
- Point-to-Point link
- A network connection between only 2 network devices.
- Point-to-Multipoint link
- A network connection between 3 or more network devices, all sharing a single broadcast domain.
- Backbone high site
- A high site with 1 or more backbone links to other Backbone high sites.
- Backbone link
- A Point-to-Point link between transit routers.
- Transit router
- A router with one or more network interfaces carrying traffic with IP addresses both originated and terminated by high sites other than that which hosts the router in question.
- Temporary down time
- A period of service disruption lasting between 10 minutes and 12 hours.
- Long-term down time
- A period of service disruption lasting more than 12 hours.
- Forward-confirmed reverse DNS
- An IP address that can be resolved to a DNS name, and whose resulting DNS name resolves to the original IP address.
- IP address allocation
- The act of reserving and recording the intended use of an IP address block.
- IP address assignment
- The act of marking active an IP address block, as in the case of assigning a Wugger IP addresses for use on his LAN.
