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User’s Guide Glossary
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and noise. Each telephone
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unnumbered interface
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IP address
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of data transmission from the user to the
VC
VCI
WAN
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Web page
hyperlink, web site
.
Web site
The ordinary copper telephone wiring used by telephone
companies. It contains one or more wire
together to reduce inductance
line uses one pair. In homes, it is most often installed with
two pairs. For Ethernet LANs, a higher grade called Catego
3 (CAT 3) is used for 10BASE-T networks, and an eve
higher grade called Category 5 (CAT 5) is used for
100BASE-T networks. See
10BASE-T, 100BASE-T,
Ethernet
.
s
An unnumbered interface is an IP interface that does not
have a local subnet associated with it. Instead, it uses a
Router-id
that serves as t
of packets sent to and from the Router. Unlike the
of a normal interface, the Router-id of an unnumbered
interface is allowed to be the same as the IP address of
another interface. For example, the WAN unnumbered
interface of your device uses the same IP address of the
LAN interface (192.168.1.1).
The unnumbere
assign a ‘real’ IP address automatically.
upstream
The direction
Internet.
Virtual Circuit
A connection from your DSL Router to your ISP.
Virtual Circuit Identifier
Together with the Virtual Path Identifier (VPI), the VCI
uniquely identifies a VC. Your ISP will tell you the VCI for
each VC they provide. See
VC
.
VPI
Virtual Path Identifier
Together with the Virtual Circuit Identifier (VCI), the VPI
uniquely identifies a VC. Your ISP will tell you the VPI for
each VC they provide.
See
VC
.
Wide Area Netwo
Any network spread over a la
a country or continent. With respect to the Wireless ADSL2+
Router, WAN refers to the Internet.
Web b
A software program that uses Hyper-Text Transfer Protoco
(HTTP) to download information from (and upload to) web
sites, and displays the information, which may consist of text,
graphic images, audio, or video, to the user. Web browser
use Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Popular we
browsers include Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
Explorer. See
HTTP, web site, WWW
.
A web site file typically containing text, graphics and
hyperlinks (cross-references) to the other pages on that web
site, as well as to pages on other web sites. When a user
accesses a web site, the first page that is displayed is called
the
home page
. See
A computer on the Internet that distributes information to
(and gets information from) remote users through web
browsers. A web site typically consists of web pages that
contain text, graphics, and hyperlinks. See
hyperlink, web
page
.
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