Cyclades ACS48, 2.3.0 user manual Mac, Masquerading, Mtu, Network Mask

Glossary
	LDAP is a "lightweight" (smaller amount of code) version of
	DAP (Directory Access Protocol), which is part of X.500, a
	standard for directory services in a network.
MAC	Medium Access Control. Internationally unique hardware
	identification address that is assigned to the NIC (Network
	Interface Card) which interfaces the node to the LAN.
Masquerading	Where a system acts on behalf of other systems, such as when
	an ISP server accesses network services on behalf of a dial-up
	user.
MTU	Short for Maximum Transmission Unit, the largest physical
	packet size, measured in bytes, that a network can transmit.
	Any messages larger than the MTU are divided into smaller
	packets before being sent.
	Every network has a different MTU, which is set by the
	network administrator. On Windows, you can set the MTU of
	your machine. This defines the maximum size of the packets
	sent from your computer onto the network. Ideally, you want
	the MTU to be the same as the smallest MTU of all the
	networks between your machine and a message's final
	destination. Otherwise, if your messages are larger than one
	of the intervening MTUs, they will get broken up
	(fragmented), which slows down transmission speeds.
	Trial and error is the only sure way of finding the optimal
	MTU, but there are some guidelines that can help. For
	example, the MTU of many PPP connections is 576, so if you
	connect to the Internet via PPP, you might want to set your
	machine's MTU to 576 too. Most Ethernet networks, on the
	other hand, have an MTU of 1500.
Network Mask	A 32-bit number used to group IP addresses together or to
	indicate the range of IP addresses on a single IP network/
	subnet/supernet. There is a group of addresses assigned to
	each network segment. For example, the mask 255.255.255.0
	groups together 254 IP addresses. If we have, as another

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