D-Link DFE-2600 manual Out-of-band, Packet, Preamble, Repeater, Segment, Snmp, Tcp/Ip, Glossary

Out-of-band	Communications with a network device using
	some medium other than the network itself.
P
Packet	An addressed segment of data transmitted on a
	network.
Preamble	Data bits at the beginning of each block of data,
	used for synchronization.
R
Repeater	LAN signal regenerator. An Ethernet hub is a
	type of repeater.
S
Segment	Part of an Ethernet or other network on which all
	traffic is common to all nodes. See ollision
	Domain.”
SNMP	The Simple Network Management Protocol; an
	industry-standard protocol for remotely moni-
	toring and controlling network devices from a
	Network Management System (NMS). SNMP re-
	quests are usually transmitted using TCP/IP,
	though other means are possible.
T
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol;
	a suite of transport and network layer communi-
	cations protocols.

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