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One of the most common local area network (LAN) wiring schemes,
Ethernet has a transmission rate of 10 Mbps.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol. The Internet protocol (and program) used to transfer
files between hosts.
Hop count
A hop count is a measure of distance between two points on the Internet. It
is equivalent to the number of gateways that separate the source and
destination.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language - The page-coding language for the World
Wide Web.
HTML browser
A browser used to traverse the Internet, such as Netscape or Microsoft
Internet Explorer.
http
Hypertext Transfer Protocol - The protocol used to carry world-wide-web
(www) traffic between a www browser computer and the www server being
accessed.
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol - The protocol used to handle errors
and control messages at the IP layer. ICMP is actually part of the IP
protocol.
Internet address
An IP address is assigned in blocks of numbers to user organizations
accessing the Internet. These addresses are established by the United
States Department of Defense's Network Information Center. Duplicate
addresses can cause major problems on the network, but the NIC trusts
organizations to use individual addresses responsibly. Each address is a
32-bit address in the form of x.x.x.x where x is an eight- bit number from 0
to 255. There are three classes: A, B and C, depending on how many
computers on the site are likely to be connected.
Internet Protocol (IP)
The network layer protocol for the Internet protocol suite