Network Servers
This server provides the necessary IP configuration to your network host so the host can communicate on the network.
What is DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server?
Model used to divide network communications into for layers.
What is the TCP/IP model?
Protocol used by web browsers and servers to secure the socket by encrypting the data before it is sent and then decrypting it on the receiving end before the data is processed.
What is HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)?
Device that manages traffic between two or more networks.
What is a Router?
A two-part kit used to find cables in walls of a building.
What is a Toner Probe (Toner generator and probe)?
This server provides the services to take you to the correct website domain when you type "abcadultschool.edu" in your web browser.
What is a DNS server?
Device to device on the local network, managed by firmware on NICs.
What is the Link layer (Layer 1)?
Protocol used to deliver the message where email is downloaded to the client computer and the email is then deleted from the email server.
What is POP (Post Office Protocol)?
It enables wireless devices to connect to the network.
What is a WAP (Wireless Access Point)?
It is used to test a network cable or port.
What is a Loopback plug?
This server stores files and makes them available to other computers.
What is a File server?
Host-to-host communication, managed by the OS, primarily using TCP and UDP protocols.
What is the Transport layer (Layer 3)?
This protocol is used to send an email message to its destination.
What is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)?
Transmits the message to every device except the device that sent the message. It has no regard for date or frame's destination.
What is a Hub?
A software that can find Wi-Fi networks, determine signal strengths, help optimize Wi-Fi signal settings, and help identify Wi-Fi security threats.
What is a Wi-Fi Analyzer?
This server manages network printers and makes them available to computers throughout the network.
What is a Print server?
More complicated model with seven layers of communication.
What is the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model?
Used for delivery of email messages where the client application manages the email while it is still stored on the server.
What is IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)?
It is smarter than a Hub and it keeps a table of all the MAC addresses for devices connected to it
What is a Switch?
A multifunctional tool that can test cables, ports, and network adapters.
What is a Network Multimeter?
A computer that intercepts requests that a client, such as a browser, makes of another server, such as a web server.
What is a Proxy server?
Responsible for getting the message to the destination computer or host on the local network or the Internet.
What is the Internet layer (Layer 2)?
This is the protocol used to transfer files between two computers over a WAN or LAN connection.
What is FTP (File Transfer Protocol)?
A device that stands between two segments of a network and manages network traffic between them.
What is a Bridge?
It is used to cut away the plastic jacket or coating around the wires inside a twisted-pair cable so that you can install a connector on the end of the cable.
What is a Cable stripper?