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| connection (in network card configuration) |
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| A set of network configuration parameters that is associated to a network interface. |
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| connection (in network communication) |
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| A session between two parties that has been initialized and will exist until the moment that the connection is tiered down. |
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| Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) |
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| Setting used to dynamically assign IP addresses to end machines |
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| Domain Name Service (DNS) |
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| Setting used allow end machines to resolve website names to navigate the internet. |
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| Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) |
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| Domain name that specifies the exact location of a website in the tree hierarchy |
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| In Linux networking, the set of configuration parameters that can be activated for a specific device. |
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| The primary communications protocol that is used by computers for communication. |
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| Version 4 of the Internet protocol. It was developed in the 1970s and introduced in 1981. |
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| Version 6 of the Internet protocol. It was developed in the 1990s to address the shortage in IPv6 addresses. |
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| A number that is used by a process to offer access to the process through a network connection. |
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| A set of rules that is used in computing, such as in computer networking to establish communications between two computers. |
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| A property that can be set to a file or directory and that will be enforced no matter which user with access permission accesses the file. |
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