P314 Broadband Sharing Gateway with 4-Port Switch

Router

SAP

Server

SNMP

SOCKS

SSL (Secured

Socket Layer)

STP

Straight through Ethernet cable

SUA

TCP

Telnet

Terminal

Terminal Software

TFTP

UDP

A device that connects two networks together. Routers monitor, direct, and filter information that passes between these networks. Because of their location, routers are a good place to install traffic or mail filters. Routers are also prone to attacks because they contain a great deal of information about a network.

In NetWare, the SAP (Service Advertising Protocol) broadcasts information about available services on the network that other network devices can listen to. A server sends out SAP messages every 60 seconds. A server also sends out SAP messages to inform other devices that it is closing down. Workstations use SAP to find services they need on the network.

A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers.

System Network Management Protocol is a popular management protocol defined by the Internet community for TCP/IP networks. It is a communication protocol for collecting information from devices on the network.

A protocol that handles TCP traffic through proxy servers.

Technology that allows you to send information that only the server can read. SSL allows servers and browsers to encrypt data as they communicate with each other. This makes it very difficult for third parties to understand the communications.

Twisted-pair cable consists of copper-core wires surrounded by an insulator. Two wires are twisted together to form a pair, and the pair form a balanced circuit. The twisting prevents interference problems. STP (shielded twisted-pair) provides protection against external crosstalk.

A cable that wires a pin to its equivalent pin. This cable connects two dissimilar devices, for example, a data terminal equipment (DTE) device and a data communications equipment (DCE) device. A straight through Ethernet cable is the most common cable used.

Single User Account – The Prestige's SUA (Single User Account) feature allows multiple user Internet access for the cost of a single ISP account - see also NAT.

Transmission Control Protocol handles flow control and packet recovery and IP providing basic addressing and packet-forwarding services.

Telnet is the login and terminal emulation protocol common on the Internet and in UNIX environments. It operates over TCP/IP networks. Its primary function is to allow users to log into remote host systems.

A device that allows you to send commands to a computer somewhere else. At a minimum, this usually means a keyboard and a display screen and some simple circuitry.

Software that pretends to be (emulates) a physical terminal and allows you to type commands to a computer somewhere else.

Trivial File Transfer Protocol is an Internet file transfer protocol similar to FTP (File Transfer Protocol), but it is scaled back in functionality so that it requires fewer resources to run. TFTP uses the UDP (User Datagram Protocol) rather than TCP (Transmission Control Protocol).

UDP is a connectionless transport service that dispenses with the reliability services

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