Technical data

Acronym Meaning
MTU maximum transmission unit
MX Mail exchange
NAK negative acknowledgment
NFS Network File System
NIS Network Information Service
NOC Network Operations Center
NTP Network Time Protocol
PDU protocol data unit
PING Packet Internet Groper
POP Post Office Protocol
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PSDN Packet Switching Data Network
PWIP PATHWORKS Internet Protocol
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RCP
remote copy
REXEC
remote execute
RFC Request for Comments
RLOGIN remote login
RIP Routing Information Protoc
ol
RMS Record Management Services
RPC remote procedure call
RSH remote shell
RTL run-time library
RTT round-trip time
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMI structure of management information
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Pr
otocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
TAC terminal access controller
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TP Time Protocol
TTL time to live
UAF user authorizati
on file
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