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media access management
04 Apr 2001
WORD - In the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communication reference model, media access management is performed by the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer of the Data-Link Layer.
In an Ethernet network transmission, the ...
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registered port numbers
15 Jan 2001
WORD - The registered port numbers are the port numbers that companies and other users register with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for use by the applications that communicate using the Internet's ...
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path
16 Aug 2001
WORD - 1) In a computer operating system, a path is the route through a file system to a particular file. A pathname (or path name) is the specification of that path. Each operating system has its own format for specifying a ...
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time-to-live
12 Sep 2003
WORD - TTL also stands for transistor-to-transistor logic.Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet Protocol (IP) packet that tells a network router whether or not the packet has been in the network too long and should be ...
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ping
27 Jul 2003
WORD - Ping is a basic Internet program that allows a user to verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests. The verb ping means the act of using the ping utility or command.
Ping is used diagnostically to ...
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URL
25 Feb 2004
WORD - A URL (Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator) - usually pronounced by sounding out each letter but, in some quarters, pronounced "Earl" - is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the ...
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port number
13 Jan 2001
WORD - A port number is a way to identify a specific process to which an Internet or other network message is to be forwarded when it arrives at a server. For the Transmission Control Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol, a port ...
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subnetwork
25 Jun 2002
WORD - A subnetwork is a separately identifiable part of a larger network that typically represents a certain limited number of host computers, the hosts in a building or geographic area, or the hosts on an individual local area ...
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Network Address Translation
26 Feb 2003
WORD - NAT (Network Address Translation or Network Address Translator) is the translation of an Internet Protocol address (IP address) used within one network to a different IP address known within another network. One network is ...
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root server system
23 Oct 2002
WORD - On the Internet, the root server system is the way that an authoritative master list of all top-level domain names (such as com, net, org, and individual country codes) is maintained and made available to all routers. The ...
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