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| Saving a file on a portable medium and walking it over to another computer. |
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| Name coined by Xerox for the first standard of network cabling and protocols. Based on the bus topology. |
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| Electronic device that sits at the center of a star topology network, providing a common point of the connection of network devices. |
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| A device that takes all of the frames it receives on one Ethernet segment and re-creates them on another Ethernet segment. |
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| A defined series of binary data that is the basic container for a discrete amount of data moving across a network. |
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| The bus cable to which the computers on an Ethernet network connect. |
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| A 64-bit series of alternating 1's and 0's, ending with 11, that begins every Ethernet frame. |
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| A member of a network or a point where one or more functional units interconnect transmission lines. |
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| Diagnostic program that can order a NIC to run in promiscuous mode. |
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| A mode of operation for a NIC in which the NIC processes all frames that it sees on the cable. |
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| Extra data added to an Ethernet frame to bring the data up to the minimum required size of 64 bytes. |
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| Frame Check Sequence (FCS) |
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| A sequence of bits placed in a frame that is used to check the primary data for errors. |
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| A mathematical method that is used to check for errors in long streams of transmitted data with high accuracy. |
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| Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) |
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| Access method that Ethernet systems use in LAN technologies enabling frames of data to flow though the network and ultimately reach address locations. |
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| Broadcast Domain/Collision Domain |
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| A network of computers that will hear each other's broadcasts. |
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| An Ethernet LAN designed to run on UTP cabling. Runs at 10 Mbps and uses baseband signaling. |
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| Connector that receives the wire link from a node on the hub. |
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| A popular cabling for telephone and networks composed of pairs of wires twisted around each other at specific intervals. Provides no EMI shielding. |
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| Type of connector with eight-wire UP connections; usually found in network connections and used or 10/100/1000BaseT networking. |
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| Any device that an only send or receive data at any given moment. |
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| Any device that can send and receive data simultaneously. |
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| Fiber-optic implementation of Ethernet that runs at 10 megabits per second using baseband signaling. |
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| Port on a hub that enables you to connect two hubs together using a straight-through cable. |
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| A cable that enables you to connect the uplink ports of two hubs together. |
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| A special UTP cable used to interconnect hubs/switches or to connect network cards without a hub/switch. |
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| A device that connects two networks and passes traffic between them based only on the node address, that traffic between nodes on one network does not appear on the other network. |
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| A device that filters and forwards traffic based on some criteria. |
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| An electronic table of the MAC addresses of each computer connected to a switch. |
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| A protocol that enables switches to detect and repair bridge loops automatically. |
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| A negative situation in which bridging devices are installed in a loop configuration, causing frames to loop continuously. |
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