Glossary - NETGEAR DG632 Reference Manual

10BASE-T
100BASE-Tx
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Line
Denial of Service
attack
DHCP
DNS
Domain Name
Domain Name Server
DSLAM
Dynamic Host
Configuration
Protocol
Gateway
IP

Glossary

IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.
See Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
A technology for sending data over regular telephone lines. ADSL allows data
rates up to 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream.
DoS. A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from
operating or communicating.
See Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
See Domain Name Server.
A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet.
Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a
number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, and so on. For
example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and
NETGEAR.com is the domain.
A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network
resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses.
DSL Access Multiplexor. The piece of equipment at the telephone company
central office that provides the ADSL signal.
DHCP. An Ethernet protocol specifying how a centralized DHCP server can
assign network configuration information to multiple DHCP clients. The
assigned information includes IP addresses, DNS addresses, and gateway
(router) addresses.
A local device, usually a router, that connects hosts on a local network to other
networks.
See Internet Protocol.
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