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NET ACCESS BROADBAND ROUTER W/4-PORT SWITCH USERS' MANUAL
Appendix C. Glossary
B
Baud rate: Baud rate refers to the number of bits per second (bps) that are
transmitted between your network device and modem or ISDN TA.
D
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol): A protocol that was made to lessen
the administrative burden of having to manually configure TCP/IP Hosts on a
network. DHCP makes it possible for every computer on a network to extract its IP
information from a DHCP server instead of having to be manually configured on
each network computer. The DHCP server built into your Router allows every
computer on your network to automatically extract IP information from the
Router.
Why is it called Dynamic?
Each time a network client turns on their computer, your Router DHCP server will
automatically give them an IP address from the IP address pool configured in the
DHCP Configuration dialog box in Broadband Manager. It's called Dynamic
because the address that is issued could be different each time a computer
connects to the network.
DNS (Domain Name System): A DNS Server can be thought of as the computer at
your ISP whose job is to take all the URLs that you type into your web browser and
translate them to their corresponding IP address. To use this the DNS translator,
you need to know the IP address of your ISP's DNS Server.
E
Ethernet: A LAN (Local Area Network) protocol developed by Xerox
®
and DEC™.
It is a very commonly used type of LAN.
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