The active (initiating) side in a protocol exchange.

The passive (responding) side in a protocol exchange.

Connection Manager, the entity implementing the transport layer of the Enea LINX protocol.

A (part of) an application that uses the Enea LINX messaging services.

An association between Connection Managers.

A key used by Ethernet Connection Managers to quickly lookup the destination of an incoming packet. Connection ID based lookup is much efficient than MAC-address based lookup.

A Connection Manager provides reliable communication for message passing. The connection layer roughly corresponds to layer four, the transport layer, in the OSI model.

Inter Process Communication.

Protocol Data Unit..