March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
10h 32m
English
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Glossary
This glossary is intended as a quick reference for terms you may be unfamiliar with. More complete descriptions of the most entries can be found by consulting the index.
- 3G
Shorthand for Third Generation mobile services.
- 3GPP
3rd Generation Partnership Project, a group set up to work on standards for third generation mobile telecommunications.
- 6bone
The original test network for IPv6 consisting of sites joined by tunnels. The 6bone is now beginning its retirement, due for completion by 06/06/2006.
- ACL
An Access Control List is a way of specifying who can access a particular file, network or service. Different vendors and different software all have their own way to specify ACLs.
- anycast
A way of sending a packet so that it is destined to any one of a group of machines. Compare this with multicast.
- API
An Application Programming Interface is a standard set of data structures, functions and methods made available to programmer to allow access to some facility, such as a network protocol or a windowing interface.
- APNIC
The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre is the RIR for the part of the world you'd guess it would be.
- ARIN
The American Registry for Internet Numbers is the RIR for North America and some other countries in the Caribbean and Africa.
- ARP
The Address Resolution Protocol, used by IPv4 to translate IPv4 addresses into lower layer addresses, such as Ethernet MAC addresses.
- AS
Autonomous Systems are routing black boxes out of which a BGP network is built. Within an AS, routing will ...
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