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Glossary

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Internet Provider

An Internet Service Provider offers access to the Internet for a fee.

Internet Protocol

The IP Protocol is one of the TCP/IP protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in

a network using IP addresses and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It

decides the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient

in a complex network (routing).

IP address

An IP address is the unique network-wide address of a network component in a network

based on the TCP/IP protocol (e.g. in a local network (LAN) or on the Internet). The

IP address has four parts (decimal numbers) separated by periods (e.g. 192.168.2.1).

The IP address comprises the network number and the computer number. Depending

on the Subnet mask one, two or three parts form the network number, the remainder

the computer number. You can find out the IP address of your PC using the ipconfig

command.

IP addresses can be assigned manually (see Static IP address) or automatically (see

Dynamic IP address).

On the Internet Domain names are normally used instead of the IP addresses. DNS is

used to assign Domain names to IP addresses.

IP Pool Range

The Gigaset WLAN Repeater's IP address pool defines a range of IP addresses that the

router's DHCP Server can use to assign Dynamic IP addresses.

IPSec

Internet Protocol Security

The term IPSec covers a number of Protocols

used for the encrypted transmission of

data packets over the Internet. IPSec uses digital certificates for device authentication.

IPSec is offered by Internet Service Providers for implementing Virtual Private Networks

(VPN).