Heritage Kayaks Heritage Series manual MAC layer/address, Ping, Port number, Protocol

Heritage Series ADSL Bridge/ Router Appendix A11

ITU

International Telecommunication Union - United Nations specialized agency for telecommunications

LAN

Local area network - A privately owned network that offers high-speed communications channels to connect information processing equipment in a limited geographic area. (usually within a single campus or building).

LED

Light Emitting Diodes - Type of indicator lights on the panel of the router.

MAC layer/address

Media Access Control layer/address defined by the IEEE 802.3 specification which defines media access including framing and error detection. Part of the OSI reference model data link layer.

MIB

Management information base - A standardized structure for SNMP management information.

NAT

Network Address Translation - A feature that allows communication between the LAN connected to the Modem and the Internet using a single IP address, instead of having a separate IP address for each computer on the network.

NSP

Network Service Provider - Company from which you buy your network services.

PAP

PPP Authentication Protocol - A method for ensuring secure network access.

Ping

An echo message, available within the TCP/IP protocol suite, sent to a remote node and returned; used to test the accessibility of the remote node.

Port number

A number that identifies a TCP/IP-based service. Telnet, for example, is identified with TCP port 23.

Protocol

A set of rules for communication, sometimes made up of several smaller sets of rules also called protocols.