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Glossary
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bles include reliability, delay bandwidth, load, MTUs, communication
costs, and hop count.
RS-232-C
An EIA-specified physical interface with associated electrical signal-
ling between DCE and DTE. The most commonly employed interface
between computer devices and modems.
RTMP
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol. The AppleTalk protocol used to
establish and maintain the routing information that is required by in-
ternet routers in order to route datagrams from any source socket to
any destination socket in the internet. Using RTMP, internet routers
dynamically maintain routing tables to reflect changes in internet to-
pology.
service advertising protocol (SAP)
An IPX protocol through which network resources such as servers be-
come known to clients.
serving area
Region surrounding a broadcasting station where signal strength is at
or above a stated minimum. The geographic area handled by a tele-
phone central office facility. Generally equivalent to a LATA.
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol. SNMP provides a means to
monitor and set network configuration and runtime parameters.
spanning tree
A loop-free subset of the topology of a network.