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Hop count
A measure of distance between two points on the Internet. It is
equivalent to the number of gateways that separate the source and
destination.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language - The page-coding language for the
World Wide Web.
HTML browser
A browser used to traverse the Internet, such as Netscape or
Microsoft Internet Explorer.
http
Hypertext Transfer Protocol - The protocol used to carry
world-wide-web (www) traffic between a www browser computer and
the www server being accessed.
ICMP
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.
Internet address
An IP address is assigned in blocks of numbers to user organiza tions
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
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connected.
Internet Protocol (IP)
The network layer protocol for the Internet protocol suite
IP address
The 32-bit address assigned to hosts that want to participate in a
TCP/IP Internet.
ISP
Internet service provider - A company allows home and corporate
users to connect to the Internet.
MAC
Media Access Control Layer - A sub -layer of the Data Link Layer
(Layer 2) of the ISO OSI Model responsible for media control.
MIB
Management Information Base - A collection of objects can be
accessed via a network management protocol, such as SNMP and
C MIP (Common Management Information Protocol).
NAT
Network Address Translation - A proposal for IP address reuse,
where the local IP address is mapped to a globally unique address.
NVT
Network Virtual Terminal
