MicroNet Technology SP3367A Manuel D’Utilisation

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One of the most common local area network (LAN) wiring schemes, 
Ethernet has a transmission rate of 10 Mbps. 

File Transfer Protocol. The Internet protocol (and program) used to transfer 
files between hosts. 

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. 

Hypertext Markup Language - The page-coding language for the World 
Wide Web. 

A browser used to traverse the Internet, such as Netscape or Microsoft 
Internet Explorer. 

Hypertext Transfer Protocol - The protocol used to carry world-wide-web 
(www) traffic between a www browser computer and the www server being 
accessed. 

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. 

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. 

The network layer protocol for the Internet protocol suite