IP Broadcast
IP Packet
IPX
IPX Network Number
Jumper
LAN
LED
Link
Location
Long File Name
LUN
LUN Queuing
MAC
MAC Address
Master
Master Browser
to different organizations, which distribute them to their users either dynamically or as permanently assigned IP addresses. IP operates the gateways that move data within an organization and to regions and then around the world. Every resource on the Internet must have an IP address.
An IP address that is used when a host wants to send a frame to every other host on the network.
A chunk of data transmitted over the Internet using standard Internet Protocol (IP). Each packet begins with a header containing addressing and system control information. IP packets vary in length, depending on the data being transmitted.
Internetwork Packet Exchange – NetWare’
An
A format standard for
A metallic collar that slips over a set of pins to join them together to complete an electrical connection.
Local Area Network - A network that connects or links together on the same cable computers that are close to each other, usually in the same building.
A connection. Two computers can be linked together. Link can also refer to a pointer to a file that exists in another place. Rather than have a copy of a particular file reside in many places, for example, some file systems enable a filename to point to another file. Finally, a link can refer to a hyperlink in a Web page that connects one page to another.
Location is the title of a data display in the
A method of naming files in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT. Unlike the filename restrictions of the
Logical Unit Number - The number assigned to a component of a SCSI device to identify it in the context of that device, which is itself identified by a SCSI ID.LUN Adapter. See SCSI Expander.
A system of ordering Read requests for data stored on the individual drives in a
Media Access Control - A protocol that governs the access method a workstation has to the network.
A six byte unique address used at the machine level when computers communicate within the same network.
In the broadest sense, a computer which controls another computer or a peripheral. An IDE Master describes the relationship of two IDE devices on an IDE bus where one is the master and the other is set as the slave. The only time the master is really a master is during initializations after that, master and slave function independently and equally.
The computer that maintains the browse list for a workgroup or NT domain. Whenever a computer offers a network service for the first time, it broadcasts a server announcement packet. The Master Browser receives this packet and adds the computer™s name to the browse list, then, it sends a list of backup browsers to the new computer, or assigns the new computer as a
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