Appendix E: Glossary
RARP | Reverse Address Resolution Protocol; A TCP/IP protocol governing the translation of |
| a |
RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computing; A processor that recognizes only a limited |
| number of |
SAP | Service Advertising Protocol; A network name advertising service that file servers |
| may use for advertising their existence to network clients |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface; A |
| a computer to peripheral devices using just one port |
SMB | Server Message Blocks; A protocol that makes use of NetBIOS |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol; A TCP/IP protocol for managing and monitoring |
| nodes on a network |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol; The |
| used in the TCP/IP suite of protocols |
UDF | Universal Disk Format; A specification developed by OSTA (Optical Storage Technology |
| Association) for use in optical storage devices. (file format for DVD) |
UNIX | A |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator; A way of specifying the location of publicly, available |
| information on the Internet |
YP | Yellow Pages; The security and |
| known as Network Information Services) |
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