Networking Glossary
- ARP: Address Resolution Protocol. Replaced
in IPv6 with the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)
- ARQ:
- ATM:
- B: Bytes, not bits, not billion.
- b: Bits, not bytes, not billions.
- BGP:
- DCCP:
- DHCP:
- DNS:
- field:
from Wikipedia, data
that has several parts can be divided into fields. For
example, a computer may represent today's date as three
distinct fields: the day, the month and the year. For us,
a notable example is an IP address, which has three fields:
network prefix, subnet, and host. Another is a MAC address,
which consists
of an organizationally unique identifier and a NIC-specific
portion
- G: Gig, or Giga. One billion, which is
109. Often G is also used for 230 =
1,073,741,824, though 230 is probably better abbreviated as
Gi, Gibi. See the
Wikipedia article.
- GB
- Gb
- giga
- HTTP:
- ICMP:
- IP, IPv4, IPv6: Internet Protocol, Internet
Protocol version 4, or Internet Protocol version 6, respectively
- k: kilo
- kB: kilobytes
- kb: kilobits
- kilo:
- M:
- MB
- Mb:
- mega:
- micro:
- milli:
- ms: milliseconds
- NAPT:
- NAT:
- OSI: The ISO's open system interconnection
- OSPF:
- RIP:
- s: seconds
- SMTP:
- TCP:
- UDP:
- PDU: Protocol Data Unit. At different layers of
the network stack, and in different protocols, different names are
used for the basic unit of communication, e.g., packet, frame,
segment, datagram. PDU is a generic term which can be used correctly
in any context.
- T
- Utilization: the fraction of time that a
resource is in use.
