BOOTP

Internet Bootstrap Protocol. This Internet protocol is used to configure the communications software on a load host.

BOOTP/TFTP Server

This is a load host that uses the BOOTP and TFTP Internet protocols to configure the load host and downline load the software.

broadcast

A access server port characteristic that allows one port to send a single message to one or more ports simultaneously.

CCR

Console Carrier Request. An ULTRIX host function that allows connections to the access server remote console port.

Clear To Send

See CTS.

circuit timer

LAT. The LAT protocol timer that determines the minimum interval at which a access server transmits virtual circuit messages.

client-server

Internet. The model of interaction in a distributed system in which a program at one site sends a request to a program at another site and awaits a response. The requesting program is called a client; the program satisfying the request is called the server.

command line recall and edit

A feature that allows the user to recall and edit previously entered commands.

community name

A character string that is used as a password that the Internet host must know in order to access the access server through SNMP.

connection queue

LAT. The queue on a access server that stores connection requests for a printer or a service.

Console Carrier Request

See CCR.

console port

Any access server port assigned to receive the access server 900 series of messages and to which an interactive device can be connected.

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