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media access control address The six-byte

data link layer address that is required for every device that connects to a network. Other devices in the network use MAC addresses to locate devices on the network and to create and update routing tables.

MTU See maximum transmission unit.

Name Binding Protocol (NBP) The AppleTalk transport-layer protocol that translates a character string name to the address of the corresponding socket client; NBP enables AppleTalk protocols to understand user-defined zones and device names by providing and maintaining translation tables that map names to corresponding socket addresses.

named area An area in which preferences are stored.

NBP See Name Binding Protocol.

network connection entity An entity that contains information for a single instance of a network protocol.

PAP See Printer Access Protocol.

PPPSee Point-to-Point Protocol.

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) A protocol that provides host-to-network connections over synchronous and asynchronous circuits. PPP was designed to work with several network-layer protocols, such as IP, IPX, and ARA.

preference The unit of organization within an entity. Each preference corresponds to a structure containing the settings for a particular protocol.

preference type An OSType that identifies a particular preference.

Printer Access Protocol (PAP) The AppleTalk protocol that manages interaction between computers and print servers; PAP handles connection setup, maintenance, and termination, as well as data transfer.

proxy ARP A variation of the ARP protocol in which an intermediate device (such as a router) sends an ARP response to the requesting host on behalf of the node whose MAC address was requested.

RARP See Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) The Internet protocol that maps MAC addresses to IP addresses.

Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (RTMP) The AppleTalk protocol used to establish and maintain the routing information that is required by routers in order to route datagrams from any source socket to any destination socket on the network. Using RTMP, routers dynamically maintain routing tables to reflect changes in network topology.

RTMP See Routing Table Maintenance Protocol.

set entity An entity that is used to group global and network connection entities for a particular purpose. For example, a set entity can be used to group AppleTalk and TCP/IP configurations for a particular location, such as home or work.

TCP See Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol.

TCP/IP See Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

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