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Glossary
LMI
Loopback
Media Access Control (MAC)
Mbps
MCMP
Multilink PPP
NAT
NTP
PAP
Local Management Interface. A specification for the use of
A diagnostic test in which a signal is transmitted across a medium while the sending device waits for its return.
The lower of the two
Million Bits Per Second.
Multilink
Network Address Translation. An Internet standard that enables a local- area network (LAN) to use one set of IP addresses for internal traffic and a second set of addresses for external traffic. A NAT box located where the LAN meets the Internet makes all necessary IP address translations.
Network Time Protocol, developed to maintain a common sense of time among Internet hosts around the world. Many systems on the Internet run NTP, and have the same time (relative to Greenwich Mean Time).
Password Authentication Protocol. An authentication protocol that allows
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