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Internet
The Internet is a wide-area network (WAN) linking several million users around the
world. A number of
known collectively as
an IP address. Servers are addressed by
names are assigned to IP addresses by the Domain Name Service (DNS).
Among the most important Internet services are:
u
electronic mail (email)
u
the World Wide Web (WWW)
u
file transfer (FTP)
u
discussion forums (Usenet / Newsgroups)
Internet Provider
An Internet provider (Internet Service Provider) offers access to the
IP
Internet protocol
The IP Protocol is one of the
network using IP addresses, and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It decides
the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient in a com-
plex network (routing).
IP address
An IP address is a network-wide unique address for a network component in a network
based on the TCP/IP
IP address has four parts (values from 0 to 255) separated by periods (e.g. 192.168.1.1).
The IP address consists of the network address and the PC address. Depending on the
Subnet mask, one part of the IP address (mostly one, two or three parts) form the net-
work address, the remainder the PC address. You can find out the IP address of your PC
by entering ipconfig in the command prompt.
IP addresses can be assigned manually (see
Dynamic IP address).
On the Internet Domain names
responsible for assigning domain names to IP addresses.
The Gigaset SE361 WLAN has a
IP pool range
The Gigaset SE361 WLAN's IP address pool defines a range of
router's DHCP server
ISP
Internet Service Provider, see
Protocols have been created for exchanging data, and these are
TCP/IP stack. All participants on the Internet can be identified by
TCP/IP protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in a
protocol (e.g. in a local area network (LAN) or on the Internet). The
are normally used instead of IP addresses.
Private IP address
can use to assign Dynamic IP
Internet Provider
Domain names (e.g. siemens.com). Domain
Static IP address) or automatically (see
and a Public IP
addresses.
Glossary
Internet for a fee.
DNS is
address.
IP addresses that the
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