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from a mail server.

IMAP is the protocol that IMAP clients use to communicate with the servers, and SMTP is the protocol used to

transport mail to an IMAP server.

The current version of the Internet Message Access Protocol is IMAP4. It is similar to Post Office Protocol version 3

(POP3), but offers additional and more complex features. For example, the IMAP4 protocol leaves your email

messages on the server rather than downloading them to your computer. If you wish to remove your messages from

the server, you must use your mail client to generate local folders, copy messages to your local hard drive, and then

delete and expunge the messages from the server.

IP

IP is an acronym for Internet Protocol. It is a protocol used for communicating data across a internet network.

IP is a "best effort" system, which means that no packet of information sent over it is assured to reach its destination in

the same condition it was sent. Each device connected to a Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN) is

given an Internet Protocol address, and this IP address is used to identify the device uniquely among all other devices

connected to the extended network.

The current version of the Internet protocol is IPv4, which has 32-bits Internet Protocol addresses allowing for in

excess of four billion unique addresses. This number is reduced drastically by the practice of webmasters taking

addresses in large blocks, the bulk of which remain unused. There is a rather substantial movement to adopt a new

version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, which would have 128-bits Internet Protocol addresses. This number can be

represented roughly by a three with thirty-nine zeroes after it. However, IPv4 is still the protocol of choice for most of

the Internet.

IPMC

IPMC is an acronym for IP MultiCast.

IP Source Guard

IP Source Guard is a secure feature used to restrict IP traffic on DHCP snooping untrusted ports by filtering traffic

based on the DHCP Snooping Table or manually configured IP Source Bindings. It helps prevent IP spoofing attacks

when a host tries to spoof and use the IP address of another host.

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LACP

LACP is an IEEE 802.3ad standard protocol. The Link Aggregation Control Protocol, allows bundling several physical

ports together to form a single logical port.

LLDP

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