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ARP
AVI
B
BOOTP
C
Communication
Connection
D
DHCP
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American Standard Code For Information Interchange, it is
the standard method for encoding characters as 8-bit
sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum of 256
characters.
Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that resides at
the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data on the same
network by translating an IP address to a physical address.
Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio and
video file type, a common format for small movies and
videos.
Bootstrap Protocol is an Internet protocol that can
automatically configure a network device in a diskless
workstation to give its own IP address.
Communication has four components: sender, receiver,
message, and medium. In networks, devices and application
tasks and processes communicate messages to each other
over media. They represent the sender and receivers. The
data they send is the message. The cabling or transmission
method they use is the medium.
In networking, two devices establish a connection to
communicate with each other.
Developed by Microsoft, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol) is a protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses to
devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can
have a different IP address every time it connects to the
network. In some systems, the device's IP address can even
change while it is still connected. It also supports a mix of
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