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A group of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line or wireless link, typically to a server.
Local area network (LAN)
Sends an ICMP echo request/reply packet to a remote host. A response from the remote host indicates that both hosts are correctly configured and a connection exists between them.
Ping
A type of software designed to take over or damage a computer without the user's knowledge or approval.
Malware
A hardware device that provides a way to connect a computer to the network medium. It is responsible for converting binary data into a format that can be sent on the network medium. Also called a network adapter.
Network Interface Card (NIC)
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A multi-port bridge that performs filtering based on MAC addresses and provides additional features not found in a bridge.
Switch
The main function of this is to translate domain names into IP addresses, which computers can understand.
DNS
A network that connects several LANs. Often limited to a corporation or an organization but are sometimes accessible to the public.
Wide area network (WAN)
A unique identifier burned into the ROM of every Ethernet NIC. The first half of it (the first six digits) is assigned to each manufacturer. The manufacturer determines the rest of the address, assigning a unique value that identifies the host address.
Media Access Control (MAC) Address
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A reference model for how applications communicate over a network without regard to its underlying internal structure and technology.
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model
One of the main internet protocols. It allows computing devices and application devices to exchange messages over a network.
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
An antenna that disperses the radio frequency wave in an equal 360-degree pattern. This provides access to many clients in a radius.
Omnidirectional antenna
A protocol used to centrally manage the distribution of IP addresses within a network.
DHCP
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There is no post-processing
The central connecting point of a physical star. It uses a logical bus topology. All messages are sent to all other hosts regardless of who is supposed to get the message.
Hub
A method for providing fault tolerance by using duplicate or multiple components that perform the same function.
Redundancy
A 128-bit alphanumeric addressing method that contains 8 header fields and uses NDP. It does not contain checksum fields or support broadcast or variable length subnet mask.
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6)
Hosts use this to discover the MAC address of a device from its IP address.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
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Vin Diesel
Dedicated block-based storage, leveraging a high-speed architecture that interconnects and delivers shared pools of storage devices to multiple servers. Makes its data act as if it were locally attached.
Storage Area Network (SAN)
A type of network that uses encryption to allow IP traffic to travel securely over the TCP/IP network. Used primarily to support secure communications over an untrusted network.
Virtual private network (VPN)
External signals that interfere with normal network communications. When working with the radio frequency spectrum, this is known as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI).
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
The ability to respond to an unexpected hardware or software failure without loss of data or loss of operation.
Fault tolerance
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