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Network management system
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Glossary
M
manager
A software program housed within a network management
station. The manager has the ability to query agents, receive
agent responses, and set specific variables using various SNMP
commands.
MIB
Management Information Base. The set of variables a gateway
running SNMP maintains. Standard, minimal MIBs have been
defined, and vendors often have private enterprise MIBs. In
theory, any SNMP manager can talk to any SNMP agent with a
properly defined MIB. MIB-II refers to an extended management
database that contains variables not shared by SNMP.
N
NDIS
Network Device Interface Specification. The NDIS specification
is used for all communication with network adapters. The
specification was developed by Microsoft and 3COM to provide
a common programming interface for MAC drivers and transport
drivers. NDIS works primarily with LAN manager and allows
multiple protocol stacks to share a single network interface card.
network address
A unique number associated with a host that identifies it to other
hosts during network transactions. This is the network portion of
an IP address. For a class A network, the network address is the
first byte of the IP address. For a class B network, the network
address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a class C
network, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP
address. In each case, the remainder is the host address. In the
Internet, assigned network addresses are globally unique.
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Issue 2 December 1996

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