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Area Network (LAN), and it is not supported on a Wide Area Network (WAN).
The NetBIOS giving each computer in the network both a NetBIOS name and
an IP address corresponding to a different host name, provides the session and
transport services described in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
NFS
NFS is an acronym for Network File System. It allows hosts to mount partitions
on a remote system and use them as though they are local file systems.
NFS allows the system administrator to store resources in a central location on
the network, providing authorized users continuous access to them, which means
NFS supports sharing of files, printers, and other resources as persistent storage
over a computer network.
NTP
NTP is an acronym for Network Time Protocol, a network protocol for
synchronizing the clocks of computer systems. NTP uses UDP (datagrams) as
transport layer.
O
OAM
OAM is an acronym for Operation Administration and Maintenance.
It is a protocol described in ITU-T Y.1731 used to implement carrier Ethernet
functionality. MEP functionality like CC and RDI is based on this
Optional TLVs.
A LLDP frame contains multiple TLVs
For some TLVs it is configurable if the switch shall include the TLV in the
LLDP frame. These
TLVs are known as optional TLVs. If an optional TLVs is
disabled the corresponding information is not included in the LLDP frame.
P
PD
PD is an acronym for Powered Device. In a PoE> system the power is delivered
from a PSE ( power sourcing equipment ) to a remote device. The remote device
is called a PD.
PHY
PHY is an abbreviation for Physical Interface Transceiver and is the device that
implement the Ethernet physical layer (IEEE-802.3).
PING
ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a network or the Internet to
a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer. The
other computer responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets.
Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a network or the
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