Planet VDR-300NU User Manual page 130

User Manual of VDR-300NU
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.
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