10BaseT 802.x 822 :-) Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) abstract syntax Access Control List (ACL) ACK acknowledgment (ACK) ACL AD address mask Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) address resolution address space address Administrative Domain (AD) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) agent alias American National Standards Institute (ANSI) American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) Anonymous FTP ANSI API Appletalk application layer Application Program Interface (API) application archie archive site ARP ARPA ARPANET AS ASCII ASN.1 assigned numbers Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) ATM authentication Autonomous System (AS) backbone bandwidth bang path baseband Basic Encoding Rules (BER) BBS BER Berkeley Source Distribution (BSD) BGP big-endian Birds Of a Feather (BOF) BOF BOOTP Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) bounce bridge broadband broadcast storm broadcast brouter BSD BTW Bulletin Board System (BBS) Campus Wide Information system (CWIS) CCIRN CCITT checksum circuit switching client client-server model CNI Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique (CCITT) congestion connection-oriented connectionless Consortium for Research and Education Network (CREN) Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks (CCIRN) core gateway Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) cracker CRC CREN CWIS Cyberspace Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) DARPA Data Encryption Key (DEK) Data Encryption Standard (DES) datagram DCE DDN NIC DDN DECnet default route Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Data Network (DDN) Defense Data Network Network Information Center (DDN NIC) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) DES dialup Directory Access Protocol Directory System Agent (DSA) Directory User Agent (DUA) DISA Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) distributed database DNS Domain Name System (DNS) domain dot address (dotted decimal notation) DS1 DS3 DSA DTE DUA Dynamic Adaptive Routing EBCDIC Ebone EFF EFLA EGP Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Electronic Mail (email) email address email encapsulation Ethernet meltdown Ethernet Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) Extended Four Letter Acronym (EFLA) Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) eXternal Data Representation (XDR) FAQ FARNET FDDI Federal Information Exchange (FIX) Federal Networking Council (FNC) Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) File Transfer Protocol (FTP) finger FIX flame FNC For Your Information (FYI) FQDN fragment fragmentation frame FTP Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) FYI gated gateway Gopher GOSIP Government OSI Profile hacker header heterogeneous network hierarchical routing High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) HIPPI hop host address host hostname hub IAB IANA ICMP IEEE 802 IEN IESG IETF IGP IMHO IMR Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) Intermediate System (IS) Intermediate System-Intermediate System (IS-IS) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) internet address Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) internet draft Internet Engineering Notes (IEN) Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Monthly Report (IMR) Internet number Internet Protocol (IP) Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Internet Research Task Force Steering Group (IRSG) Internet Society (ISOC) internet Internet Internetwork Packet eXchange (IPX) interoperability IP address IP datagram IP IPX IRC IRSG IRTF IS IS-IS ISDN ISO Development Environment (ISODE) ISO ISOC ISODE KA9Q Kerberos Kermit LAN layer Listserv little-endian LLC Local Area Network (LAN) Logical Link Control (LLC) MAC address MAC Mail Bridge Mail Exchange Record (MX Record) mail exploder Mail Gateway mail path mail relay mailing list MAN Management Information Base (MIB) Martian Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) Media Access Control (MAC) Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) MIB MIME MTU multicast multihomed host Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) MX Record NAK name resolution namespace National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Research and Education Network (NREN) National Science Foundation (NSF) Negative Acknowledgment (NAK) netiquette Netnews Network Address Network File System (NFS) Network Information Center (NIC) Network Information Services (NIS) network meltdown Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) network number Network Operations Center (NOC) Network Time Protocol (NTP) Network NFS NIC.DDN.MIL NIS NIST NNTP NOC Nodal Switching System (NSS) Node NREN NSF NSS NTP OCLC octet Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol (OSPF) Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) OSI Reference Model OSI OSPF Packet Internet Groper (PING) Packet Switch Node (PSN) packet switching packet PD PDU PEM PING Point Of Presence (POP) Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) polling POP port Post Office Protocol (POP) Postal, Telegraph and Telephone (PTT) postmaster PPP Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) protocol stack protocol proxy ARP PSN PTT Public Domain (PD) RARE RARP RBOC RCP Read the F*cking Manual (RTFM) reassembly Remote Procedure Call (RPC) repeater Request For Comments (RFC) Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne (RARE) Reseaux IP Europeenne (RIPE) Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) RFC 822 RFC RIP RIPE Round-Trip Time (RTT) route routed router routing domain Routing Information Protocol (RIP) routing RPC RTFM RTT Serial Line IP (SLIP) server SIG signature Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) SLIP SMDS SMI SMTP SNA snail mail SNMP STD stream-oriented Structure of Management Information (SMI) stub network subnet address subnet mask subnet number subnet switch Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) Systems Network Architecture (SNA) T1 T3 TAC TCP TCP/IP Protocol Suite TELENET Telnet Terminal Access Controller terminal emulator terminal server Three Letter Acronym (TLA) Time to Live (TTL) TLA TN3270 Token Ring topology transceiver transit network Transmission Control Protocol Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Trojan Horse TTL tunnelling twisted Pair UDP Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy (UUCP) Usenet User Datagram Protocol (UDP) UTC UUCP virtual circuit virus W3 WAIS WAN WG White Pages whois Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) Wide Area Network (WAN) World Wide Web (WWW) worm WRT WWW WYSIWYG X X.25 X.400 X.500 XDR Xerox Network System (XNS) XNS yellow pages