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Glossary
Topology
The place where you have all things (node, drawing, link...)
Node
A Virtual Machine (Dynamips, IOU, Qemu, VPCS...), a cloud, a builtin device (switch, hub...)
Appliance
A model for a node. When you drag an appliance to the topology a node is created.
Appliance template
A file (.gns3a) use for creating new node model.
Drawing
Drawing are visual element not used by the network emulation. Like text, images, rectangle... They are pure SVG elements.
Adapter
The physical network interface. The adapter can contain multiple ports.
Port
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
The central server managing everything in GNS3. A GNS3 controller will manage multiple GNS3 compute node.
Compute
The process running on each server with GNS3. The GNS3 compute node is controlled by the GNS3 controller.
Symbol
Symbol are the icon used for nodes.
Scene
The drawing area