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- octet.
A group of eight binary digits; an octet can represent the numbers 0 to 255 in decimal.
- OSI model.
The seven-layer model for designing network protocols.
- partial mesh.
A network where each router has only one connection to a subset of all the other routers in the network.
- passive.
The state of a route in EIGRP when the router has a successor through which to forward packets.
- passive interface.
An interface on which the protocol is not running, although the link itself is advertised as reachable by the routing protocol.
- PAT. Port Address Translation.
Translating source and destination address at the port level, which allows multiplexing many sessions from different hosts onto a single address. Commonly used to permit privately addressed ...
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