TCP/IP FUNDAMENTALS VOCABULARY


Address Record

Alias record

Broadcast address

Checksum

Classless Internetwork Domain Routing

CNAME record

Connectionless

Datagrams

Destination port number

Domain

Domain Name Service (DNS)

Dotted decimal

Dynamically allocated port

Firewall

Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

Gateways

Hop

IP address

Mail exchange record (MX)

Name resolution

NetBIOS Extended User Interface (NetBEUI)

Network basic input/output system (NetBIOS)

Octet

Port

Proxy server

Quad decimal

Route

Routing

Sequence number

Socket

Source port number

Subnet mask

Subnetting

Subnetwork address

Supernetting

TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)

Virtual LAN (VLAN)

Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)

 

 

 

 

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