Table D-1 Acronyms
| Acronym |
Meaning |
|
ACK
|
acknowledgment
|
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ACL
|
access control list
|
|
ACP
|
ancillary control process
|
|
ANSI
|
American National Standards Institute
|
|
API
|
application programming interface
|
|
ARP
|
Address Resolution Protocol
|
|
ASCII
|
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
|
|
ATM
|
asynchronous transfer mode
|
|
BBS
|
Bulletin Board System
|
|
BGP
|
Border Gateway Protocol
|
|
BIND
|
Berkeley Internet Name Domain
|
|
BOOTP
|
Bootstrap Protocol
|
|
bps
|
bits per second
|
|
BSD
|
Berkeley Software Distribution
|
|
CFS
|
container file system
|
|
CFSRTL
|
container file system run-time library
|
|
CSLIP
|
Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol
|
|
DCE
|
Distributed Computing Environment
|
|
DCL
|
Digital Command Language
|
|
DEK
|
data encryption key
|
|
DES
|
data encryption standard
|
|
DNS
|
Domain Name Service
|
|
eSNMP
|
extensible Simple Network Management Protocol
|
|
EGP
|
External Gateway Protocol
|
|
FDDI
|
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
|
|
EOF
|
end of file
|
|
EOL
|
end of line
|
|
FQDN
|
fully qualified domain name
|
|
FTP
|
File Transfer Protocol
|
|
GID
|
group identification (UNIX)
|
|
IAB
|
Internet Architecture Board
|
|
ICMP
|
Internet Control Message Protocol
|
|
IGP
|
Internal Gateway Protocol
|
|
InterNIC
|
Internet Network Information Center
|
|
IP
|
Internet Protocol
|
|
ISDN
|
Integrated Services Digital Networks
|
|
IVP
|
installation verification procedure
|
|
Kbps
|
kilobits per second
|
|
LAN
|
local area network
|
|
LPD
|
line printer daemon
|
|
LPR
|
remote line printing
|
|
MBUF
|
memory buffer
|
|
MFD
|
master file directory
|
|
MIB
|
Management Information Base
|
|
MIB II
|
Management Information Base II
|
|
MTU
|
maximum transmission unit
|
|
MX
|
mail exchange
|
|
NAK
|
negative acknowledgment
|
|
NFS
|
Network File System
|
|
NIS
|
Network Information Service
|
|
NMS
|
Network Management Station
|
|
NOC
|
Network Operations Center
|
|
NTP
|
Network Time Protocol
|
|
PDU
|
protocol data unit
|
|
PING
|
packet internet groper
|
|
POP
|
Post Office Protocol
|
|
PPP
|
Point-to-Point Protocol
|
|
PSDN
|
Packet Switching Data Network
|
|
PWIP
|
PATHWORKS Internet Protocol
|
|
RARP
|
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
|
|
RCP
|
remote copy
|
|
REXEC
|
remote execute
|
|
RFC
|
Request for Comments
|
|
RLOGIN
|
remote login
|
|
RIP
|
Routing Information Protocol
|
|
RMS
|
Record Management Services
|
|
RPC
|
remote procedure call
|
|
RSH
|
remote shell
|
|
RTL
|
run-time library
|
|
RTT
|
round-trip time
|
|
SLIP
|
Serial Line Internet Protocol
|
|
SMI
|
structure of management information
|
|
SMTP
|
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
|
|
SNMP
|
Simple Network Management Protocol
|
|
TAC
|
terminal access controller
|
|
TCP
|
Transmission Control Protocol
|
|
TCP/IP
|
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
|
|
TFTP
|
Trivial File Transport Protocol
|
|
TP
|
Time Protocol
|
|
TTL
|
time to live
|
|
UAF
|
user authorization file
|
|
UCP
|
Management Control Program
|
|
UDP
|
User Datagram Protocol
|
|
UID
|
user identification (UNIX)
|
|
UTC
|
Universal Coordinated Time
|
|
WAN
|
wide area network
|
|
WKS
|
well known service
|
|
XDR
|
external data representation
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