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Glossary
Gigaset WLAN Repeater/ englisch / A31008-E505-B105-1-7619 / glossary.fm / 08.03.2004
Internet Provider
An Internet Service Provider offers access to the
for a fee.
IP
Internet Protocol
The IP
protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in
a network using
and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It
decides the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient
in a complex network (routing).
IP address
An IP address is the unique network-wide address of a network component in a network
based on the
protocol (e.g. in a local network (
) or on the
). The
IP address has four parts (decimal numbers) separated by periods (e.g. 192.168.2.1).
The IP address comprises the network number and the computer number. Depending
on the
one, two or three parts form the network number, the remainder
the computer number. You can find out the IP address of your PC using the
ipconfig
command.
IP addresses can be assigned manually (see
On the Internet
are normally used instead of the IP addresses.
used to assign Domain names to IP addresses.
IP Pool Range
The Gigaset WLAN Repeater's IP address pool defines a range of
that the
can use to assign
.
IPSec
Internet Protocol Security
The term IPSec covers a number of
used for the encrypted transmission of
data packets over the
. IPSec uses digital certificates for device authentication.
IPSec is offered by Internet Service Providers for implementing Virtual Private Networks
(
,
ISP
Internet Service Provider see
L2TP
Layer Two Tunnelling Protocol
L2TP is an extension of
and is offered by
for implementing Vir-
tual Private Networks (
). It covers most of the features of PPTP but with less over-
head and is better for managed networks.
