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data on the same network by translating an IP
address to a physical address.
AVI Audio Video Interleave, it is a
audio and video 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
Communica
tion
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 message. 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
addresses to devices on a network
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. DH
