Lucent Technologies PortMaster - Manual (Page 341)

Glossary
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SAP
Service Advertisement Protocol. An IPX protocol that provides a means of informing
network clients, via routers and servers, of available network resources and services. See
also IPX.
Serial Line Internet Protocol
See SLIP.
serial port
A bidirectional channel through which data flows one bit as a time. Asynchronous serial
ports most often use 10 bits for a character of data including 1 start bit, 8 data bits, and 1
stop bit.
server
A computer or a specialized device that provides and manages access to shared network
resources, such as hard disks and printers.
Service Advertisement Protocol
See SAP.
service profile identifier
See SPID.
Simple Network Management Protocol
See SNMP.
slave
In Multichassis PPP, a PortMaster through which a subsequent connection for a particular
user is made. (The port through which the connection is made is called the slave port.)
Every slave has a corresponding master. Slaves are for a given connection only, and a
PortMaster that functions as a slave for one user’s connection can be a master for a
different user’s connection. See also master.
SLIP
Serial Line Internet Protocol. The protocol, obsoleted by the Point-to-Point Protocol
(PPP), for point-to-point serial connections using TCP/IP. See also PPP.