PROTOCOLS

IEEE 802.11

Standard for Wireless Local Area Network

IEEE 802.3an

Standard for 10GBase-T released in 2006

IEEE 802.3

Standard for Ethernet

IEEE 802.3af

Standard for Power over Ethernet (PoE)

LLC

Logical Link Control sublayer in Project 802

MAC

Media Access Control sublayer in Project 802

00

Address flag in IEEE 802.11 for frame within a BSS

802.1Q, ISL

Protocol for VLAN connection between switches

802.11ac

IEEE wireless LAN standard with highest throughput

IEEE 802.1Q

Protocol inserting 32-bit field for VLAN identification

IEEE 802.11

IEEE standard for wireless LAN covering physical and data-link layers

Infrastructure network

Term for a BSS with an AP in IEEE 802.11

802.11g

IEEE wireless LAN standard supporting 54 Mbps and backward compatible

802.11n

IEEE wireless LAN standard supporting 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies

Ethernet 100 Mbps

Router interface for communication between VLANs in a switch

443

Default port used by HTTPS for secured communication

DNS

Protocol for resolving names into IP addresses

TCP/UDP port number

Identifies the application generating information in a datagram

Class D

IP address class identifying multicast addresses

UDP

Protocol providing connectionless delivery service at the transport layer

SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK

Order of TCP session establishment messages

HDLC

Basis for data link control in most LAN protocols

Error-correction protocols

MNP2, MNP3, MNP4, and MNP10

Gateway

Device interconnecting networks with different protocols

Voice Over Internet Protocol Service

Provision of voice communication using IP technology

Logical Link Control (LLC)

Provides flow and error control for upper-layer protocols

Address Resolution Protocol

Maps IP address to link-layer address

Bridge

Device interconnecting LANs with identical protocols

Internet architecture board

Technical advisor overseeing TCP/IP Protocol Suite development

FTP

Application layer protocol in TCP/IP protocol suite

Five

Number of layers in the TCP/IP protocol suite

TCP

Transport-layer protocol in TCP/IP protocol suite

IP

Network layer protocol in TCP/IP protocol suite

Network layer

Layer where logical address is the identifier in TCP/IP protocol suite

Datalink

Layer responsible for moving frames in TCP/IP protocol suite

443

Default port for secured HTTPS in TCP/IP

RIP

TCP/IP routing protocol measuring route efficiency by hops

Router

Configuration on DHCP server to supply default gateway address

DNS

Service resolving names into IP addresses

ARP

Protocol limited to local subnet use

Broadcast

Transmission type for DHCP clients to locate servers

Wired and wireless LANs

Both operate in lower two layers of TCP/IP

ISDN

Not a technology for Personal Area Network (PAN)

NDP

Network layer protocol using ICMPv6 for node location

FIN

TCP control bit to initiate session termination.