Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (MPE/iX 6.0)

Glossary 181
Glossary
A
address An identifier defined
and used by a particular protocol
and associated software to
distinguish one node from
another.
address resolution In NS
networks, the mapping of node
names to IP addresses and the
mapping of IP addresses to
subnet addresses. See also probe
protocol, ARP.
alias A character string that is
used as an alternate name for a
protocol or a node.
ARP Address Resolution
Protocol. ARP provides IP to LAN
station address resolution for
Ethernet nodes on a LAN.
ARPA Advanced Research
Projects Agency.
ARPANET The computer
network of the Advanced
Research Projects Agency.
ASCII American National
Standard Code for Information
Interchange. A character set
using 7-bit code used for
information interchange among
data processing and data
communications systems. The
American implementation of
International Alphabet No. 5.
B
binary mode Data transfer
scheme in which no special
character processing is
performed. All characters are
considered to be data and are
passed through with no control
actions being taken.
bind A system call that assigns a
specific name and unique address
to a socket, turning a socket
(which is one end-point of the
connection) into an actual file.
Binding allows servers to
register well-known addresses
with the system and each client to
register a specific address for
itself. See also socket and
well-known addresses.
bootp Internet Boot Protocol
(BOOTP) used to start, or boot,
LAN devices such as routers,
printers, X-terminals, and
diskless workstations.
BOOTPTAB.NET.SYS The
configuration file for the
Bootstrap protocol daemon,
bootpd, that contains client and
relay information.
C
client A node on the
internetwork that asks to use one
of the Internet Services on the
host. For example, a Telnet client
is the process that uses Telnet
protocol to establish a virtual
terminal on your system.
D
daemon A process that either
waits for the occurrence of an
event or waits to perform some
specificied task on a periodic