ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network. It is a fast digital phone line provided by most phone companies. Requires a special card or an additional external device for your computer. Your Internet Service Provider must be able to pro- vide an ISDN connection.
ISP: Internet Service Provider. A company that provides access to the Internet for private and business users. This company handles the link from your com- puter to the rest of the Internet.
LAN: Local Area Network. A network of computers in a workgroup, department, or building (or home).
POP: Post Office Protocol. A standard protocol for exchanging
PPP:
PPPoE: PPP over Ethernet. A protocol allowing DSL connections to be turned on or off dynamically.
PPTP:
Print Server: A method for sharing a printer with other computers over a LAN. This feature is built into the FR1004AL.
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network. The telephone line network that is used when you make an analog telephone call.
RFC: Request for Comments. One of a series of documents defining a pro- posed protocol and requesting standardization. To retrieve an RFC, go to http:// www.ietf.org/rfc/rfcNNNN.txt, where NNNN is the number of the target RFC.
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Standard protocol for transferring elec- tronic mail messages from one mail server to another. SMTP specifies how mail systems interact and the format of control messages.
SPI: Secure Packet Inspection. Also commonly called Stateful Packet Inspec- tion. A firewall passes or blocks data based upon a set of
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