Technical data

Acronym Meaning
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATM asynchronous transfer mode
BBS Bulletin Board System
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
bps bits per second
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCL DIGITAL Command Language
DEK data encryption key
DES data encryption standard
DNS Domain Name System
eSNMP extensibleSimpleNetworkMa
nagement Protocol
EGP External Gateway Protocol
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
EOF end of file
EOL end of line
FQDN fully qualified domain name
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GID group identification (UNIX)
IAB Internet Architecture Boa
rd
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IGP Internal Gateway Protocol
InterNIC Internet Network Information Center
IP Internet Protocol
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Networks
IVP installation verification procedure
Kbps kilobits per second
LAN local area network
LPD line printer daemon
LPR remote line printing
MBUF memory buffer
MCP Management Control
Program
MFD master file directory
MIB Management Information Base
MIB-II Management Information Base II
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