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Cisco 1800 Series Integrated Services Routers (Fixed) Software Configuration Guide
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Appendix B      Concepts
  TACACS+
TACACS+
Cisco 1800 fixed-configuration routers support the Terminal Access Controller Access Control 
System Plus (TACACS+) protocol through Telnet. TACACS+ is a Cisco proprietary authentication 
protocol that provides remote access authentication and related network security services, such as event 
logging. User passwords are administered in a central database rather than in individual routers. 
TACACS+ also provides support for separate modular authentication, authorization, and accounting 
(AAA) facilities that are configured at individual routers.
Network Interfaces 
This section describes the network interface protocols that Cisco 1800 fixed-configuration routers 
support. The following network interface protocols are supported:
Ethernet 
Ethernet is a baseband LAN protocol that transports data and voice packets to the WAN interface using 
carrier sense multiple access collision detect (CSMA/CD). The term is now often used to refer to all 
CSMA/CD LANs. Ethernet was designed to serve in networks with sporadic, occasionally heavy traffic 
requirements, and the IEEE 802.3 specification was developed in 1980 based on the original Ethernet 
technology. 
Under the Ethernet CSMA/CD media-access process, any host on a CSMA/CD LAN can access the 
network at any time. Before sending data, CSMA/CD hosts listen for traffic on the network. A host 
wanting to send data waits until it detects no traffic before it transmits. Ethernet allows any host on the 
network to transmit whenever the network is quiet. A collision occurs when two hosts listen for traffic, 
hear none, and then transmit simultaneously. In this situation, both transmissions are damaged, and the 
hosts must retransmit at some later time. Algorithms determine when the colliding hosts should 
retransmit.
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a high-speed multiplexing and switching protocol that supports 
multiple traffic types, including voice, data, video, and imaging.
ATM is composed of fixed-length cells that switch and multiplex all information for the network. An 
ATM connection is simply used to transfer bits of information to a destination router or host. The ATM 
network is considered a LAN with high bandwidth availability. Unlike a LAN, which is connectionless, 
ATM requires certain features to provide a LAN environment to the users. 
Each ATM node must establish a separate connection to every node in the ATM network that it needs to 
communicate with. All such connections are established through a permanent virtual circuit (PVC).