Glossary

6to4

A tunneling protocol that enables two nodes running both IPv4 and IPv6 across an IPv4 routing infrastructure to use a special address obtained by combining the prefix 2002::/16 with the 32-bit public IPv4 address to form a 48-bit prefix of the form 2002:wwxx:yyzz::/48 in the case of a public IPv4 address w.x.y.z. These nodes use this address type when communicating with each other.

802.1X authentication

A series of standards that determine the acceptance of connection requests to IEEE 802.11 wireless or IEEE 802.3 wired networks.

access control list (ACL)

A list of users and groups that can access an object, such as a file, folder, or printer, and the type of access granted.

access-based enumeration

A technology that enables administrators ...

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