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translating an IP address to a physical address.
AVI Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platfo
file type, a common format for small movies and videos.
B
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol is
an Internet protocol that can automatically
configure a network device in a diskless workstation to give its
own IP address.
C
Communication
Communication has four components: sender, receiver, message,
and medium. In networks, devices and application tasks and
processes communicate messages to each other over media. They
represent the sender and receivers. The data they send is the
mes
sage. The cabling or transmission method they use is the
medium.
Connection
In networking, two devices establish a connection to communicate
with each other.
D
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol was developed by
Microsoft a protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses
devices on a network
. With dynamic addressing, a device can
have a different IP address every time it connects to the network.
In some systems, the device's IP address can even change while it
is still connected. DHCP also support
s a mix of static and dynamic
IP addresses. This simplifies the task for network administrators
because the software keeps track of IP addresses rather than
