Netgear DM602 DM602 Reference Manual - Page 61

Glossary 10BASE-T 100BASE-Tx ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Denial of Service attack DHCP DNS Domain Name Domain Name Server DSLAM Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol IP IEEE 802.3 specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring. IEEE 802.3 specification for 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted pair wiring. See Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line A technology for sending data over regular telephone lines. ADSL allows data rates up to 8 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream. A hacker attack designed to prevent your computer or network from operating or communicating. See Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. See Domain Name Server. A descriptive name for an address or group of addresses on the Internet. Domain names are of the form of a registered entity name plus one of a number of predefined top level suffixes such as .com, .edu, .uk, etc. For example, in the address mail.NETGEAR.com, mail is a server name and NETGEAR.com is the domain. A Domain Name Server (DNS) resolves descriptive names of network resources (such as www.NETGEAR.com) to numeric IP addresses. DSL Access Multiplexor. The piece of equipment at the telephone company central office that provides the ADSL signal. DHCP. An Ethernet protocol specifying how a centralized DHCP server can assign network configuration information to multiple DHCP clients. The assigned information includes IP addresses, DNS addresses, and gateway (router) addresses. See Internet Protocol. Glossary 1