Glossary
As networking terminology changes, so do glossaries. This glossary doesn’t claim to define everything; nothing can. However, web glossaries (such as www.webopedia.com) offer frequently updated definitions of current computer and networking terms.
adapter card
A hardware component in a computer used to support attached devices.
addresses
Identifiers placed in packets (protocol data units, or PDUs) to identify the source and destination nodes for the PDU.
American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII)
A convention for using the binary numbers (0 and 1) to represent letters, numerals, and special notations, such as ESC.
application ...
Get Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
