NetWare 4.1/9000 Concepts

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NetWare Glossary

Communication protocol

Conventions or rules used by a program or operating system to communicate

between two or more endpoints.

Although many communication protocols are used, they all allow

information to be packaged, sent from a source, and delivered to a

destination.

NetWare Services breaks information to be communicated into blocks called

packets. In addition to data, each packet contains control information that

can be used for addressing, error checking and other purposes.

Communication protocols govern how the control information is presented.

When multiple protocols are used in a packet, “enveloping” or

“encapsulating” is used to place control information at the beginning and

sometimes at the end of the packet. Control information for the highest level

protocol is placed closest to the data and information for the lowest level

protocol is placed furthest from the data.

There are seven main communication protocols speciﬁc to NetWare:

Compare right

A property right that grants the right to compare any other value to a value of

that property.