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TERM MEANING
RADIUS
The Remote Authentication DialIn User Service
(RADIUS) protocol was developed by Livingston
Enterprises as an access server authentication
and accounting protocol. The RADIUS server
can support a variety of methods to authenti-
cate a user. When it is provided with the user-
name and original password given by the user,
it can support PPP, PAP or CHAP, UNIX login,
and other authentication mechanisms.
Router
A network device that moves packets of data. A
router differs from hubs and switches because
it is "intelligent" and can route packets to their
final destination.
SMASH
Systems Management Architecture for Server
Hardware is a standardsbased protocols aimed
at increasing productivity of the management
of a data center. The SMASH Command Line
Protocol (SMASH CLP) specification provides
an intuitive interface to heterogeneous servers
independent of machine state, operating system
or OS state, system topology or access method.
It is a standard method for local and remote
management of server hardware using outof-
band communication
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. IMG/IM/CM4000
includes, SMTPclient, a minimal SMTP client
that takes an email message body and passes
it on to a SMTP server (default is the MTA on
the local host).