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Station In LANs, a station consists of a device that can
communicate data on the network. In FDDI, a station
includes both ph
y
sical nodes and addressable lo
g
ical
devices. Workstations, single-attach stations, dual-
attach stations, and concentrators are FDDI stations.
Subnet mask In TCP/IP, the bits used to create the subnet are called
the subnet mask.
T
(TCP/IP) Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is a
widel
y
used transport protocol that connects diverse
computers of various transmission methods. It was
developed
y
the Department of Defense to connect
different computer t
y
pes and led to the development of
the Internet.
Transceiver A transceiver
j
oins two network se
g
ments to
g
ether.
Transceivers can also be used to
j
oin a se
g
ment that
uses one medium to a se
g
ment that uses a different
medium. On a 10BASE-5 network, the transceiver
connects the network adapter or other network device
to the medium. Transceivers also can be used on
10BASE-2 or 10BASE-T networks to attach devices
with AUI ports.
U
UDP The User Data
g
ram Protocol is a connectionless
protocol that resides above IP in the TCP/IP suite