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| ARP (Adress Resolution Protocol) |
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| Protocol in the TCP/IP suite used w/ Command-line utility of the same name to determine the MAC address that corresponds to a paticular IP address |
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| DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) |
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| Protocol that allow a DHCP server to set TCP/IP settings automatically for a DHCP client |
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| DNS (Domain Name Service/ Domain Name Server/ Domain Name System) |
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| TCP/IP name resolution system that resolves host names to IP addresses |
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| FTP (File Transfer Protocol) |
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| Application used to transfer files |
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| HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) |
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| Secure form of HTTP, used for internet business transactions and where a secure connection is needed |
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| ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) |
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| Protocol in which messages consist of a single packet and are connectionless, ICMP packets determine connectivity between two hosts |
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| IGMP (Internet Group Mulitcast Protocol) |
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| Protocol that routers use to communicate with hosts to determine a "group membership" in order to determine which computers want to recieve a multicast |
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| IMAP 4 (Internet Message Access Protocol version 4) |
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| Alternative to POP3 for recieving email from an email server, supports searching through messages stored on a server and using a folder to organize email |
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| NTP (Network Time Protocol) |
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| Protocol that gives the current time |
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| Transport layer protocol used with video and voice transmission; operates on top layer of UDP and provides information about packet sequence to help recieving nodes detect delay and packet loss; also assigns packet a timestamp that corresponds to when the data in the packet was sampled from a voice or video stream; the time stamp helps the recieving node synchronize incoming data |
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| SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) |
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| Main protocol used to send electronic mail on the internet |
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| Terminal emulation progeram that looks exactly like Telnet but encrypts the data |
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| TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) |
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| Part of the TCP/IP protocol layer, operates at Layer four of the OSI model, is connection oriented |
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| TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol) |
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| Set of protocols set up by the US Dept. of Denfense that allows dissimilar computers to share information over a network |
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| TCP/IP protocol functioning at the application layer; provides terminal emulation service over a TCP connection, enabling the user to assume control over applications that reside on a remote system; virtual network terminal services permit the data terminal equipment to emulate other terminal devices, transparently |
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| TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) |
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| Protocol that transfers files between servers and clients; unlike FTP, TFTP requires no user login; devices that need an operating system but have no local hard disk often use TFTP to download their operating system |
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| TLS (Transport Layer Security) |
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| Robust update to SSL that works with almost any TCP application |
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| UDP (User Datagram Protocol) |
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| Part of TCP/IP protocol suite; connectionless protocol that is an alternative to TCP |
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| Address Resolution Protocol |
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| Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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| Domain Name Service/ Domain Name Server/ Domain Name System |
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| Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
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| Internet Control Message Protocol |
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| Internet Group Multicast Protocol |
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| Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 |
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| Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
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| Transmission Control Protocol |
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| Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet protocol |
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| Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
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