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Glossary

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Internet
The Internet is a wide-area network (

WAN

) linking several million users around the

world. A number of

Protocols

have been created for exchanging data, and these are

known collectively under the name

TCP/IP

. All participants on the Internet can be iden-

tified by an

IP address

. Servers are addressed by

Domain names

(e.g. gigaset.com).

Domain names are assigned to IP addresses by the Domain Name Service (

DNS

).

Among the most important Internet services are:

u

electronic mail (email)

u

the World Wide Web (WWW)

u

file transfer (FTP)

u

discussion forums (Usenet / Newsgroups)

Internet Provider
An Internet provider (Internet Service Provider) offers access to the

Internet

for a fee.

IP
Internet protocol
The IP

Protocol

is one of the

TCP/IP

protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in a

network using

IP addresses

, and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It decides

the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient in a com-
plex network (routing).

IP address
An IP address is a network-wide unique address for a network component in a network
based on the

TCP/IP

protocol (e.g. in a local area network (

LAN

) or on the

Internet

). The

IP address has four parts (values from 0 to 255) separated by periods (e.g. 192.168.1.1).
The IP address consists of the network address and the PC address. Depending on the

Subnet mask

, one, two or three parts form the network address, the remainder the PC

address. You can find out the IP address of your PC by entering ipconfig in the com-
mand prompt.
IP addresses can be assigned manually (see

Static IP address

) or automatically (see

Dynamic IP address

).

On the Internet,

Domain names

are normally used instead of IP addresses.

DNS

is

responsible for assigning domain names to IP addresses.
The Gigaset SE366 WLAN has a

Private IP address

and a

Public IP address

.

IP pool range
The Gigaset SE366 WLAN's IP address pool defines a range of

IP addresses

that the

router's

DHCP server

can use to assign

Dynamic IP addresses

.

ISP
Internet Service Provider, see

Internet Provider

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