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Re: Networking Terms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Nugent)
Wed Apr 17 04:32:36 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:58:51 +1000
From: Tony Nugent <tonyn@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au>
To: dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Dave Wreski <dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu> wrote:
> Hi all. Does anyone know of a glossary of networking terms? I am looking
> for a description of things like switch/bridge/router/DHCP/UDP/FDDI,
> etc.. Do you think I could find all of this sort of thing in one reference?
These are links to go into your bookmark.html file...
http://www.analysys.co.uk/commslib.htm
http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/bySubject/Networking.html
http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
It's the last one that will allow you to look up acronyms like the
ones that you are looking for. For example, "dhcp" and "fddi" give
(edited):
========8<--cut--\/--\/--\/--\/--\/--\/--\/--\/--\/--\/--\/--
Results of search for `dhcp'
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [BOOTP-like Micro$oft's
protocol]
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [WinNT's version of
BOOTP etc to give out IP addresses]
....
Results of search for `fddi'
FDDI
Fiber Digital Device Interface
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
========8<--cut--/\--/\--/\--/\--/\--/\--/\--/\--/\--/\--/\--
Searches seem to fail on like switch/bridge/router (it's only an
acronym server, although you can also look for words in the
expansions).
These specific terms can be found in the glossary of any half-decent
book on networking (try looking for any by William Stallings).
I wish there was a way to download the entire database, but I can't
seem to find a link that will allow me to do that :-(
Cheers .
Tony _--_|\
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