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Acronym |
Explanation |
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ACB
|
Access Control Block
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ACK
|
Acknowledgment
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AF
|
Address Family
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ANSI
|
American National Standard Institute
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API
|
Application Programming Interface
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ARP
|
Address Resolution Protocol
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ARPA
|
Advanced Research Projects Agency
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AS
|
Autonomous System
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ASA
|
American Standards Association
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ASCII
|
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ASN.1
|
Abstract Syntax Notation One
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BBN
|
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Incorporated
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BER
|
Basic Encoding Rules
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BGP
|
Border Gateway Protocol
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BSD
|
Berkeley Software Distribution
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CMIP
|
Common Management Information Protocol
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CMIS
|
Common Management Information Services
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CMOT
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Common Management Information Services and Protocol over TCP/IP
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CRC
|
Cyclic Redundancy Check
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CSMA/CD
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Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
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DARPA
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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DCA
|
Defense Communications Agency
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DCE
|
Distributed Computing Environment
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DCE
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Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (also called Data Communications Equipment)
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DDN
|
Defense Data Network
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DES
|
Data Encryption Standard
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DFS
|
Distributed File Service
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DISA
|
Defense Information Systems Agency
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DIX
|
Digital, Intel, and Xerox Ethernet Protocol
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DME
|
Distributed Management Environment
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DNS
|
Domain Name System
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DSA
|
Directory System Agent
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DSAP
|
Destination Service Access Point
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DTE
|
Data Terminal Equipment
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DUA
|
Directory User Agent
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EBCDIC
|
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
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EGP
|
Exterior Gateway Protocol
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EOF
|
End of File
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EOR
|
End of Record
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FCS
|
Frame Check Sequence
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FDDI
|
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
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FIN
|
Final Segment
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FTAM
|
File Transfer, Access, and Management
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FTP
|
File Transfer Protocol
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GGP
|
Gateway to Gateway Protocol
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GOSIP
|
Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
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GTF
|
Generalized Trace Facility
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HDLC
|
High-Level Data Link Control Protocol
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IAB
|
Internet Architecture Board
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IAB
|
Internet Activities Board
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IAC
|
Interpret as Command
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IANA
|
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
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ICMP
|
Internet Control Message Protocol
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ID
|
Identifier
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IEEE
|
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
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IEN
|
Internet Engineering Notes
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IESG
|
Internet Engineering Steering Group
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IETF
|
Internet Engineering Task Force
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IGMP
|
Internet Group Management Protocol
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IGP
|
Interior Gateway Protocol
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IP
|
Internet Protocol
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IRTF
|
Internet Research Task Force
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ISDN
|
Integrated Services Digital Network
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ISN
|
Initial Sequence Number
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ISO
|
International Organization for Standardization
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ISODE
|
ISO Development Environment
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LAN
|
Local Area Network
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LAPB
|
Link Access Procedures Balanced
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LAPD
|
Link Access Procedures on the D-Channel
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LLC
|
Logical Link Control
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MAC
|
Media Access Control
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MAN
|
Metropolitan Area Network
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MIB
|
Management Information Base
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MSS
|
Maximum Segment Size
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MTA
|
Message Transfer Agent
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MTU
|
Message Transfer Unit
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MTU
|
Maximum Transmission Unit
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MX
|
Mail Exchanger
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NETBIOS
|
Network Basic Input/Output System
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NFS
|
Network File System
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NIC
|
Network Interface Card
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NIS
|
Network Information System
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NREN
|
National Research and Education Network
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NSAP
|
Network Service Access Point
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NSFNET
|
National Science Foundation Network
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NVT
|
Network Virtual Terminal
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OSF
|
Open Software Foundation
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OSI
|
Open Systems Interconnect
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OSPF
|
Open Shortest Path First
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PAD
|
Packet Assembly/Disassembly
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PDU
|
Protocol Data Unit
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PI
|
Protocol Interpreter
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PING
|
Packet Internet Groper
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POP
|
Post Office Protocol
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PPP
|
Point-to-Point Protocol
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RARP
|
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
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RFC
|
Request For Comment
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RIP
|
Routing Information Protocol
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RMON
|
Remote Network Monitor |
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RPC
|
Remote Procedure Call
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RST
|
Reset
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RTT
|
Round Trip Time
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SDLC
|
Synchronous Data Link Communication
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SLIP
|
Serial Line Interface Protocol
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SMDS
|
Switched Multimegabit Data Service
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SMTP
|
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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SNA
|
Systems Network Architecture
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SNMP
|
Simple Network Management Protocol
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SONET
|
Synchronous Optical Network
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SPF
|
Shortest Path First
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SSAP
|
Source Service Access Point
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SSCP
|
System Services Control Point
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SYN
|
Synchronizing Segment
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TCB
|
Transmission Control Block
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TCP
|
Transmission Control Protocol
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TCU
|
Trunk Coupling Unit
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TELNET
|
Terminal Networking
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TFTP
|
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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TLI
|
Transport Layer Interface
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TP4
|
OSI Transport Class 4
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TSAP
|
Transport Service Access Point
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TTL
|
Time-to-Live
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UA
|
User Agent
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UDP
|
User Datagram Protocol
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ULP
|
Upper Layer Protocol
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WAN
|
Wide Area Network
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XDR
|
External Data Representation
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XNS
|
Xerox Network Systems |
