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IP address
The 32-bit address assigned to hosts that want to participate in a TCP/IP
Internet.
ISP
Internet service provider - A company allows home and corporate users to
connect to the Internet.
MAC
Media Access Control Layer - A sub-layer of the Data Link Layer (Layer 2)
of the ISO OSI Model responsible for media control.
MIB
Management Information Base - A collection of objects can be accessed
via a network management protocol, such as SNMP and CMIP (Common
Management Information Protocol).
NAT
Network Address Translation - A proposal for IP address reuse, where the
local IP address is mapped to a globally unique address.
NVT
Network Virtual Terminal
PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
PORT
The abstraction used by Internet transport protocols to distinguish among
multiple simultaneous connections to a single destination host.
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service - This is the term used to describe basic
telephone service.
PPP
Point-to-Point-Protocol - The successor to SLIP, PPP provides
router-to-router and host-to-network connections over both synchronous
and asynchronous circuits.
PPPoE
PPP over Ethernet is a protocol for connecting remote hosts to the Internet
over an always-on connection by simulating a dial-up connection.