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User’s Manual of MGSW-28240F

RARP is an acronym for Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. It is a protocol that is used to obtain an IP address for a

given hardware address, such as an Ethernet address. RARP is the complement of ARP.

RADIUS

RADIUS is an acronym for Remote Authentication Dial In User Service. It is a networking protocol that provides

centralized access, authorization and accounting management for people or computers to connect and use a network

service.

Router Port

A router port is a port on the Ethernet switch that leads switch towards the Layer 3 multicast device.

RSTP

In 1998, the IEEE with document 802.1w introduced an evolution of STP: the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, which

provides for faster spanning tree convergence after a topology change. Standard IEEE 802.1D-2004 now incorporates

RSTP and obsoletes STP, while at the same time being backwards-compatible with STP.

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SAMBA

Samba is a program running under UNIX-like operating systems that provides seamless integration between UNIX and

Microsoft Windows machines. Samba acts as file and print servers for Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2, and other SMB

client machines. Samba uses the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and Common Internet File System (CIFS),

which is the underlying protocol used in Microsoft Windows networking.

Samba can be installed on a variety of operating system platforms, including Linux, most common Unix platforms,

OpenVMS, and IBM OS/2.

Samba can also register itself with the master browser on the network so that it would appear in the listing of hosts in

Microsoft Windows "Neighborhood Network".

SHA

SHA is an acronym for Secure Hash Algorithm. It designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and published by

the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard. Hash algorithms compute a fixed-length digital

representation (known as a message digest) of an input data sequence (the message) of any length.

Shaper

A shaper can limit the bandwidth of transmitted frames. It is located after the ingress queues.

SMTP

SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is a text-based protocol that uses the Transmission Control

Protocol (TCP) and provides a mail service modeled on the FTP file transfer service. SMTP transfers mail messages

between systems and notifications regarding incoming mail.

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