Glossary
802.11b
IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
IEEE specification for wireless networking at 11 Mbps using
Denial of Service | DoS. A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from |
attack | operating or communicating. |
DHCP | See Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. |
DNS | See Domain Name Server. |
domain name | A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet. |
| Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a |
| number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, etc. For |
| example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and |
| NETGEAR.com is the domain. |
Domain Name Server | A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network |
| resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses. |
Dynamic Host | DHCP. An Ethernet protocol specifying how a centralized DHCP server can |
Configuration | assign network configuration information to multiple DHCP clients. The |
Protocol | assigned information includes IP addresses, DNS addresses, and gateway |
| (router) addresses. |
ESSID | The Extended Service Set Identification (ESS ID) is a |
| (maximum) alphanumeric key identifying the wireless local area network. |
Gateway | A local device, usually a router, that connects hosts on a local network to other |
| networks. |
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