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Glossary

	After a client and server has used Kerberos to prove their
	identity, they can also encrypt all of their communications to
	assure privacy and data integrity as they go about their
	business.
KVM	Keyboard, video and mouse interface to a server.
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A software protocol
	for enabling anyone to locate organizations, individuals, and
	other resources such as files and devices in a network,
	whether on the Internet or on a corporate intranet.
	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.
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

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