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Glossary

10BASE-T

IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.

100BASE-Tx

IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring.

ADSL

See Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

Asymmetric Digital

Subscriber Line

A technology for sending data over regular telephone lines. ADSL allows data

rates up to 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream.

Denial of Service

attack

A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from operating

or communicating.

DHCP

See Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

DNS

See Domain Name Server.

Domain Name

A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet.

Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a

number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, etc. For

example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and

NETGEAR.com is the domain.

Domain Name Server

A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network

resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses.

DSLAM

DSL Access Multiplexor. The piece of equipment at the telephone company

central office that provides the ADSL signal.

Dynamic Host

Configuration

Protocol

DHCP. An Ethernet protocol specifying how a centralized DHCP server can

assign network configuration information to multiple DHCP clients. The

assigned information includes IP addresses, DNS addresses, and gateway

(router) addresses.

See Internet Protocol.

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