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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 in Internet transport protocols to distinguish among multiple simultaneous connections
to a single destination host.

POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service - This is the term 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.

Remote server
A network computer allows a user to log on to the network from a distant location.