Planet Technology 802.11g Wireless ADSL 2/2+ Router ADW-4401A/Bv2 User Manual
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PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
PORT
The abstraction used in Internet transport protocols to distinguish among multiple
simultaneous connections to a single destination host.
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service - This is the term describe basic telephone service.
PPP
Point-to-Point-Protocol - The successor to SLIP, PPP provides router-to-router and
host-to-network connections over both synchronous and asynchronous circuits.
PPPoE
PPP over Ethernet is a protocol for connecting remote hosts to the Internet over an
always-on connection by simulating a dial-up connection.
Remote server
A network computer allows a user to log on to the network from a distant location.
RFC
Request for Comments - Refers to documents published by the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) proposing standard protocols and procedures for the Internet. RFC
can be found at www.ietf.org.
Route
The path that network traffic takes from its source to its destination. The route a
datagram may follow can include many gateways and many physical networks.
In the Internet, each datagram is routed separately.
Router
A system is responsible for making decisions about which of several paths network
(or Internet) traffic will follow. To do this, it uses a routing protocol to
gain information about the network and algorithms to choose the best route based on
several criteria known as "routing metrics".
Routing Table