Cookie
A file left on a user’s computer when the user visits a web site. A cookie allows the web site to recognize the user on subsequent visits. Cookies are generally used to enable a user to automatically sign on to certain web sites and to customize the features offered by such sites.
Daemon
A process that runs in the background and performs a specified operation, at predetermined times or in response to certain events. Typical daemons include print spoolers and automated network information system protocols.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A protocol that automatically specifies the network settings of a client on a TCP/IP network. Many of these network settings required to set up TCP/IP, which is the standard protocol of the Internet, can be made automatically.
DNS
Domain Name System. The system that associates the IP address assigned to a computer with the domain name.
DNS server
Domain Name System server. The system that maintains a database that translates the domain names of Internet servers, such as “www.w3.org,” into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, such as “18.176.0.26.”
Domain
Management concept that divides large scale networks into groups for identifying individual computers and users. The Internet is managed by classifying domains according to country, type (business, organization, education, etc.), or company.
Ethernet
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File server
A personal computer or workstation to which two or more users on client personal computers can gain access via a local area network (LAN) in order to share and use its hard disk drive.
Frame type
The packet format that the network adapter of a computer uses to communicate over a network. On an Ethernet network, there are four frame types: Ethernet 802.2, Ethernet 802.3, Ethernet ll, and Ethernet SNAP.
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