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Manual Discovery | The person using the workstation or the PC is |
| responsible for providing a list of devices, device |
| information and associated queues by using an |
| operating system utility. |
MAU | An acronym for |
| concentrator or transceiver for attracting nodes to a |
| transmission medium. |
message | See Frame. |
MIB | An acronym for Management Information Base. A |
| database of network management information used |
| by CMIP (Common Management Information |
| Protocol) and SNMP (Simple Network |
| Management Protocol). |
NCP | See NetWare Core Protocol. |
NetBIOS/NetBEUI | A |
| NetBEUI protocol. |
NetBIOS/IP | A |
| protocol. |
NetWare | Novell's network operating system using IPX |
| (Internetwork Packet eXchange) and SPX |
| (Sequential Packet eXchange) protocols. Clients |
| log onto one or more file servers which provide |
| services such as mail, printing, and filing. |
NetWare Core Protocol | A protocol used by a NetWare client to request |
| services from a NetWare server. |
NFS | An acronym for Network File System. Sun |
| Microsystems's network operating system based on |
| TCP/IP protocols. |
Node | A device on a network that has an address and can |
| send and/or receive data to and from other devices |
| on the network. |
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