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Chrome OS
A proprietary operating system developed and owned by Google, based on Linux. Chrome OS offers a ...
Samba
The Samba Project is the standard Windows interop suite for Linux and other Unix-based operating ...
Group Policy Editor
A specialized software program installed on Microsoft-Windows machines, used to edit internal sys...
Interfaces
An OS component responsible for handling interaction between the user and the system. Command-Lin...
General Data Protection Regulation
Provisions and requirements protecting the personal data of EU citizens, disallowing the transfer...
Honeypot
A host system or network (called a honeynet) to bait attackers into trying to exploit it. The att...
IEEE 802.1p
A three-bit CoS priority field within the greater 802.1Q format running at layer 2. 802.1p can be...
TCPDump
A Linux command-line packet capture utility. Basic Syntax tcpdump -i [eth0|any] Flags -w Write ou...
Virtual IP Address
The public address of a load balanced cluster that is shared among the nodes. Also called a float...
MofN Control
M of N Control - An authorization method that requires $m$ amount of signatures from $n$ authoriz...
Slateless Address Autoconfiguration
aliases: SLAAC A simpler approach to automatic address assignment in IPv6.
Routing Information Protocol
aliases: RIP A distance-vector routing protocol. RIP only considers a single metric: the next...
Port Statuses
An enumeration of all the LED colors you might see on a switch or router. Color Status Sol...
Dense WDM
A type of WDM that provisions a bigger number of channels (20-160 in increments of 20). There is ...
Coarse WDM
A form of WDM that supports up to 16 different wavelengths, used to deploy four or eight bidirect...
Bidirectional WDM
A form of WDM that transmit and receive data over the same strand of fiber cabling. It uses sligh...
Cat 7
An unshielded twisted pair cabling category that supports up to 10 Gbps. Description 600 MHz GG4...
Cat 8
An unshielded twisted pair cable category that supports up to 40 Gbps. Cat 8 also includes Cat 8....
OSI Upper Layers
The upper layers of the OSI model just store collections of functions used commonly to interface ...
OSI Network Layer
The network layer of the OSI reference model handles the moving of data between networks of netwo...