Appendix B

Glossary

Appendix B

10Base2

IEEE 802.3 specification for Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable to run

 

at 10 Mbps. Limited to 185 meters per segment. 10Base5 IEEE 802.3

 

baseband physical layer specification for Ethernet that uses thick

 

coaxial cable to run at 10 Mbps. Limited to 500 meters per segment.

10Base-T

IEEE 802.3 specification for Ethernet that uses unshielded twisted pair

 

(UTP) wiring with RJ-45 eight-conductor plugs at each end. Runs at 10

 

Mbps.

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ACK

Acknowledgment. Message sent from one network device to another

 

to indicate that some event has occurred. See NAK.

access rate

Transmission speed, in bits per second, of the circuit between the end

 

user and the network.

adapter

Board installed in a computer system to provide network communica-

 

tion capability to and from that computer system.

address mask

See subnet mask.

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. Modems attached to twisted pair

 

copper wiring that transmit 1.5-9 Mbps downstream (to the sub-

 

scriber) and 16 -640 kbps upstream, depending on line distance.

AH

The Authentication Header provides data origin authentication, con-

 

nectionless integrity, and anti-replay protection services. It protects

 

all data in a datagram from tampering, including the fields in the

 

header that do not change in transit. Does not provide confidentiality.

ANSI

American National Standards Institute.

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (pronounced

 

ASK-ee). Code in which numbers from 0 to 255 represent individual

 

characters, such as letters, numbers, and punctuation marks; used in

 

text representation and communication protocols.

asynchronous

Network system that allows data to be sent at irregular intervals by

communication

preceding each octet with a start bit and following it with a stop bit.

 

Compare synchronous communication.

AUI

Attachment Unit Interface. Connector by which a thick (802.3) Ethernet

 

transceiver cable is attached to a networked device.

Auth Protocol

Authentication Protocol for IP packet header. The three parameter val-

 

ues are None, Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication

 

Header (AH).

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backbone

The segment of the network used as the primary path for transporting

 

traffic between network segments.

baud rate

Unit of signaling speed equal to the number of number of times per

 

second a signal in a communications channel varies between states.

 

Baud is synonymous with bits per second (bps) if each signal repre-

 

sents one bit.

binary

Numbering system that uses only zeros and ones.

Blowfish

A 64-bit block cipher, contains a variable length key of maximum 448

 

bits.

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6.3 specifications

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