Digicom Michelangelo LAN Manual page 41

Software Manual
RFC 2364
Creation and maintenance of a Point-to-Point-Protocol (PPP) session over an ATM link.
Router
A device that handles the connection between 2 or more networks. Routers spend all their
time looking at the destination addresses of the packets passing through them and deciding
which route to send them on.
SNMP
SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol. SNMP manages the list of SNMP
community names (also used as passwords by other applications, such as telnet) and the
list of SNMP trap destinations.
Static Route
Route that is explicitly configured and entered into the routing table. Static routes take
precedence over routes chosen by dynamic routing protocols.
Subnet Mask
32-bit address mask used in IP to indicate the bits of an IP address that are being used
for the subnet address. Sometimes referred to simply as mask.
TCP
TCP, Transmission Control Protocol, is a transport protocol used along with the Internet
Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of message units between computers over the Internet.
While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping
track of the packets and provide error recovery mechanism.
TCP/IP
See TCP.
Telnet
Telnet is the way you can access a remote computer, provided you have given access to it.
More technically, Telnet is a user command and an underlying TCP/IP protocol for accessing
remote computers. With Telnet, you log on as a regular user with whatever privileges you
may have been granted to the specific application and data on that computer.
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