6 User’s Reference Guide
remapping: See network number remapping.
RFC (Request for Comment): A series of documents used to exchange information and standards about the Internet.
RIP (Routing Information Protocol): A protocol used for the transmission of IP routing information.
router: A device that supports network communications. A router can connect identical network types, such as
router port: A physical or logical connection between a router and a network. Where a network only allows the use of one protocol, each physical connection corresponds to one logical router port. An example is the Netopia Router’s LocalTalk port. Where a network allows the use of several protocols, each physical connection may correspond to several logical router
routing table: A list of networks maintained by each router on an internet. Information in the routing table helps the router determine the next router to forward packets to.
SDLC (Synchronous Data Link Control): A
seeding: A method for ensuring that two or more routers agree about which physical networks correspond to
which network numbers and zone names. There are three options:
seed router: A router that provides network number and zone information to any router that starts up on the same network. See also hard seeding,
serial port: A connector on the back of the workstation through which data flows to and from a serial device.
server: A device or system that has been specifically configured to provide a service, usually to a group of clients.
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol): A protocol used for communication between management consoles and network devices. The Netopia Router can be managed through SNMP.
soft seeding: A router setting. In soft seeding, if a router that has just been reset detects a network number or zone name conflict between its configured information for a particular port and the information provided by another router connected to that port, it updates its configuration using the information provided by the other router. See also hard seeding,
subnet: A network address created by using a subnet mask to specify that a number of bits in an internet address will be used as a subnet number rather than a host address.
subnet mask: A