Glossary - NETGEAR HR314 Reference Manual

10BASE-T
100BASE-Tx
802.11a
Denial of Service
attack
DHCP
DNS
domain name
Domain Name Server
Dynamic Host
Configuration
Protocol
ESSID

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.
IEEE specification for wireless networking at 54 Mbps and higher using
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), a new encoding
scheme that offers benefits over spread spectrum compared with 802.11b.
802.11a operates in the 5 GHz Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure
(U-NII) band.
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, etc. 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.
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.
The Extended Service Set Identification (ESS ID) is a thirty-two character
(maximum) alphanumeric key identifying the wireless local area network.
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