AN2836 Freescale Semiconductor / Motorola, AN2836 Datasheet - Page 2

• Manufacturer Part Number: AN2836
• Description: Web Server Development with MC9S12NE64 and OpenTCP
• Manufacturer: Freescale Semiconductor / Motorola

Acronyms and Terms
Acronyms and Terms
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Acronym/
ARP
AN
BIOS
BOOTP
DHCP
DNS
FTP
HTML
HTTP
ICMP
IP
ISP
LAN
NETBEUI
OSI
Ping
RFC
SMTP
SNMP
TCP
TFTP
UDP
Term
Address resolution protocol
Auto-negotiate
Basic input/output system
Bootstrap protocol
Dynamic host configuration protocol
Domain name server
File transfer protocol
Hyper text mark-up language
Hyper text transfer protocol
Internet control message protocol
Internet protocol
Internet service provider
Local area network
Network BIOS enhanced user
Open systems interconnection
A diagnostic program
Request for comments
Simple mail transfer protocol
Simple network management protocol
Transmission control protocol
Trivial file transfer protocol
User datagram protocol
interface protocol
Web Server Development with MC9S12NE64 and OpenTCP, Rev. 0
Description
Table 1. Acronyms and Terms
Translates an Internet address into a hardware address
Mechanism that detects the modes of two devices and
automatically configures the devices to the highest
common performance mode
Collection of software routines that allows communication
Enables a diskless device to discover its own IP address
Allocates IP addresses dynamically
Program/computer that converts a domain name into its
IP address
Used to transfer files across a network
Used to create web pages
Used to transmit web pages
Used to report errors from IP level and above
Mechanism for delivering packets across a network
Company that links an end user to the Internet
Group of devices that share a common communication
line
Standardizes how computers on a network communicate
Standard for how messages should be communicated
across a network so that devices will consistently work
with other devices
Utility that tests whether a specific IP address is
accessible
Series of numbered Internet informational documents and
standards that are widely followed by Internet software
developers and others
Used for sending and receiving email
Used by computers that monitor and manage network
activity to communicate with one another and the
computers they are monitoring
Guarantees delivery of data
Subset of FTP that does not require valid username and
password
Found at the network layer along with the TCP protocol.
UDP does not guarantee reliable, sequenced packet
delivery. If data does not reach its destination, UDP does
not retransmit, but TCP does.
Definition
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