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modem
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A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that encodes (resp. decodes) digital information by modulating (resp. demodulating) an analog signal. Modems are frequently used to transmit digital information over telephone lines and radio links. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem for a survey of various types of modems
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MSS
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A TCP option used by a TCP entity in SYN segments to indicate the Maximum Segment Size that it is able to receive.
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multicast
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a transmission mode where an information is sent efficiently to `all` the receivers that belong to a given group
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nameserver
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A server that implements the DNS protocol and can answer queries for names inside its own domain.
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NAT
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A Network Address Translator is a middlebox that translates IP packets.
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NBMA
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A Non Broadcast Mode Multiple Access Network is a subnetwork that supports multiple hosts/routers but does not provide an efficient way of sending broadcast frames to all devices attached to the subnetwork. ATM subnetworks are an example of NBMA networks.
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network-byte order
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Internet protocol allow to transport sequences of bytes. These sequences of bytes are sufficient to carry ASCII characters. The network-byte order refers to the Big-Endian encoding for 16 and 32 bits integer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
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NFS
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The Network File System is defined in :rfc:`1094`
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NTP
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The Network Time Protocol is defined in :rfc:`1305`
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OSI
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Open Systems Interconnection. A set of networking standards developed by :term:`ISO` including the 7 layers OSI reference model.
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