Cisco® Network Professional's: Advanced Internetworking Guide

G

global command

Cisco term used to define commands that are used to change the router configuration and that affect the whole router. In contrast, an interface command only affects the interface on which it's configured.

GMII

Gigabit MII: Media Independent Interface that provides 8 bits at a time of data transfer.

GNS

Get Nearest Server: On an IPX network, a request packet sent by a customer for determining the location of the nearest active server of a given type. An IPX network client launches a GNS request to get either a direct answer from a connected server or a response from a router disclosing the location of the service on the internetwork to the GNS. GNS is part of IPX and SAP. See also: IPX and SAP.

grafting

A process that ...