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dial-up line
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A synonym for a regular telephone line, i.e. a line that can be used to dial any telephone number.
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DNS
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eBGP
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An eBGP session is a BGP session between two directly connected routers that belong to two different Autonomous Systems. Also called an external BGP session.
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EGP
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Exterior Gateway Protocol. Synonym of interdomain routing protocol
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EIGRP
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The Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is a proprietary intradomain routing protocol that is often used in enterprise networks. EIGRP uses the DUAL algorithm described in [Garcia1993]_.
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Ethernet
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The most widely used LAN technology.
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file transfer
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A service that enables a user to send or receive a file from a distant server over the network. The File Transfer Protocol :term:`FTP` was a popular service. It has now been replaced by HTTP/HTTPs or more secure protocols such as the `SSH File Transfer Protocol <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol>`_.
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frame
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a frame is the unit of information transfer in the datalink layer
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Frame-Relay
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ftp
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The File Transfer Protocol defined in :rfc:`959` has been the `de facto` protocol to exchange files over the Internet before the widespread adoption of HTTP :rfc:`2616`.
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FTP
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The File Transfer Protocol is defined in :rfc:`959`
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