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Key Distribution Center
aliases: KDC A server agent that facilitates the distribution of cryptographic keys, often us...
Apple macOS
A proprietary, Unix-based operating system. Nobody really likes this one. Apple designed macOS fo...
Encryption File System
aliases: EFS An obscure file system only supported by NTFS used for specific file encry...
Domain Name System
aliases: DNS The naming system used by computer networks to match human-readable domain names...
NTFS Permissions
A cumulative permissions system for granular control over folder and files used in the New-Techno...
Multimeter
An electronic measuring instrument that combines several measurement functions into one piece of...
DNS Security Extensions
aliases: DNSSEC A spoofing and poisoning mitigation toolset via DNS request validation....
DHCP Relay
A function on routers that allows them to forward DHCP discover broadcast packets to DHCP servers...
Network Time Protocol
aliases: NTP Network clock synchronization protocol. Designed to be used in packet-swi...
Open Shortest Path First
aliases: OSPF A link-state dynamic routing protocol. OSPF stores the entire network to...
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
aliases: EIGRP A distance-vector dynamic routing protocol. Unlike RIP, EIGRP uses two ...
Border Gateway Protocol
aliases: BGP A specialized dynamic routing protocol for use in routing domains, interne...
Attenuation
The loss of signal strength over a network medium. Attenuation is measured in decibels (dB), whi...
MMF Cables
A type of fiber optic cable that uses multiple central cores in order to facilitate multiplex tra...
MAC Address
Media Access Control address: a 48-bit hexadecimal number used to identify computer systems by th...
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
aliases: VRRP Open-source standard protocol for configuring failover routers. VRRP is ...
First Hop Redundancy Protocols
aliases: FHRP Networking technique that configures failover routers that serve as the d...
Load Balancer
A hardware appliance or software program that distributes incoming client requests across a set o...
Multiprotocol Label Switching
A routing technique that directs data based on labels rather than network addresses. Often used i...
Discovery Protocols
An enumeration of some common host discovery protocols. Cisco Discovery Protocol Used in all Ci...