ARP | Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that |
| resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data |
| on the same network by translating an IP address to a |
| physical address. |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio |
| and video file format. |
B
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can automatically configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its own IP address.
C
Communication Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message, and medium. In networks, devices and application tasks and processes communicate messages to each other over media. They represent the sender and receivers. The data they send is the message. The cabling or transmission method they use is the medium.
Connection In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate with each other.
D
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol was developed by Microsoft a protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses to devices on a network. With dynamic
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