Prestige 645 ADSL Internet Access Router
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| informational in nature. Of those that are intended to become Internet standards, the final |
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| version of the RFC becomes the standard and no further comments or changes are permitted. |
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| Change can occur, however, through subsequent RFCs. |
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RIP |
| Routing Information Protocol is an interior or |
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| NetWare environment as a method for exchanging routing information between routers. |
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SAP |
| In NetWare, the SAP (Service Advertising Protocol) broadcasts information about available |
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| services on the network that other network devices can listen to. A server sends out SAP |
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| messages every 60 seconds. A server also sends out SAP messages to inform other devices |
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| that it is closing down. Workstations use SAP to find services they need on the network. |
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Server |
| A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software |
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| running on other computers. |
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SNMP |
| Simple Network Management Protocol is a popular management protocol defined by the |
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| Internet community for TCP/IP networks. It is a communication protocol for collecting |
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| information from devices on the network. |
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STP |
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| twisted together to form a pair, and the pair form a balanced circuit. The twisting prevents |
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| interference problems. STP (shielded |
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| crosstalk. |
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Straight |
| A cable that wires a pin to its equivalent pin. This cable connects two dissimilar devices, for |
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| example, a data terminal equipment (DTE) and a data communications equipment (DCE) |
Ethernet |
| device. A straight through Ethernet cable is the most common cable used. |
cable |
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SUA |
| Single User Account – The Prestige's SUA (Single User Account) feature allows multiple |
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| user Internet access for the cost of a single ISP account - see also NAT. |
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TCP |
| Transmission Control Protocol handles flow control and packet recovery and IP providing |
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| basic addressing and |
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Telnet |
| Telnet is the login and terminal emulation protocol common on the Internet and in UNIX |
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| environments. It operates over TCP/IP networks. Its primary function is to allow users to log |
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| into remote host systems. |
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Terminal |
| A device that allows you to send commands to a computer somewhere else. At a minimum, |
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| this usually means a keyboard and a display screen and some simple circuitry. |
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Terminal |
| Software that pretends to be (emulates) a physical terminal and allows you to type |
Software |
| commands to a computer somewhere else. |
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H | Glossary |