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ICS (Internet Connection Sharing): A Windows program
that allows a computer to act as a gateway between the
Internet and a network. ICS uses DHCP to assign IP
addresses. See Windows documentation for more information
about ICS.
Internet Sharing: A Macintosh OSX program that allows a
computer to act as a gateway between the Internet and a
network. See Macintosh documentation for more information
about Internet Sharing.
IP address (Internet Protocol address): A unique
number that identifies a device on a network. The IP address
is often automatically assigned by DHCP or AutoIP. However,
a device can be manually assigned a static IP address.
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LAN (Local Area Network): A high-speed type of computer
network that connects devices that are a relatively short
distance from one another. An Ethernet network is one type
of LAN.
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MAC address (Media Access Control address): The
hardware address for a device on a network. The printer's
MAC address appears on the HP Report page.
Mb/s (megabits per second): The measure for the rate at
which a network functions. For example, 1 Mb/s equals
1,000,000 bits per second (or 125,000 bytes per second).
mDNS: As an alternative to a Domain Name Server, a device
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