American Standard Code for Information Interchange
See ASCII.
AppleTalk
An Apple Computer, Inc., trademark for their network protocol suite.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A set of
asynchronous
Pertaining to a communication method in which each event occurs with no relation to a timing signal.
atomics
Refers to nontabular objects in a group of objects in a MIB.
authentication
Utilizes Kerberos to verify a user’s identity by validating a Kerberos user name and password on a remote Kerberos host (KDC).
authentication trap
An SNMP trap message that is sent to each community with TRAPS enabled whenever an unauthorized Internet host tries to access the access server, or when an Internet host uses an unauthorized SNMP GET or GETNEXT message.
autobaud
The process by which the access server automatically determines the line speed and other characteristics of a terminal attached to one of its ports.
autoconnect
A feature whereby the access server automatically attempts to reconnect a port to a network resource in the following situations: the port becomes disconnected from a resource, the user enters a CONNECT command and the specified resource is unavailable, or the user logs in to a port that has a preferred service defined.
automatic failover
See failover.
bootptab file
This is the file that BOOTP uses to store information necessary to downline load software. The bootptab file is normally shown as /etc/bootptab.