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Chapter 7 Internet Setup
ISP offers a
ADSL Terms
A Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) is the connection for your device to the ISP. You need a Virtual Path Identifier (VPI) and a Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI) to identify a PVC. Multiplexing is a way of carrying protocols on a PVC. Your ISP should supply you with all this information.
WAN IP Address
The WAN IP address is an IP address for the
If your ISP assigns you a static WAN IP address, they should also assign you the subnet mask and DNS server IP address(es) (and a gateway IP address if you use the Ethernet or ENET ENCAP encapsulation method).
ATM QoS
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a LAN and WAN networking technology that provides
NAT
NAT (Network Address Translation - NAT, RFC 1631) is the translation of the IP address of a host in a packet, for example, the source address of an outgoing packet, used within one network to a different IP address known within another network.
Multicast
Traditionally, IP packets are transmitted in one of either two ways - Unicast (1 sender - 1 recipient) or Broadcast (1 sender - everybody on the network). Multicast delivers IP packets to a group of hosts on the network - not everybody and not just one.
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