Cyclades AlterPath BladeManager user manual Pcmcia

Glossary
	The following lists the available parity parameters and their
	meanings:
	Odd - Parity bit set so that there is an odd number of 1 bits
	Even - Parity bit set so that there is an even number of 1 bits
	None - Parity bit is ignored, value is indeterminate
PCMCIA	Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
	An organization consisting of some 500 companies that has
	developed a standard for small, credit card-sized devices,
	called PC Cards. Originally designed for adding memory to
	portable computers, the PCMCIA standard has been
	expanded several times and is now suitable for many types of
	devices including network cards (NICs).
	The PCMCIA 2.1 Standard was published in 1993. As a
	result, PC users can be assured of standard attachments for
	any peripheral device that follows the standard.
Port	A port is a 16-bit number (the allowed range being 1 through
	65535) used by the TCP and UDP protocols at the transport
	layer. Ports are used to address applications (services) that
	run on a computer. If there was only a single network
	application running on the computer, there would be no need
	for port numbers and the IP address only would suffice for
	addressing services. However, several applications may run
	at once on a particular computer and we need to differentiate
	among them. This is what port numbers are used for. Thus, a
	port number may be seen as an address of an application
	within the computer.
PPP	Point-to-Point Protocol. This protocol is a way to connect
	your computer to the Internet over telephone lines. PPP is
	replacing an older protocol, SLIP, as it is more stable and has
	more error-checking features.
	PPP has been a widely-used Internet standard for sending
	datagrams over a communications link. The PPP standard is
	described in RFC 1661 by the Point-to-Point Working Group

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