24-Port Managed Gigabit Switch
to communicate within a Local Area Network (LAN), and it is
not supported on a Wide Area Network (WAN).
The NetBIOS giving each computer in the network both a
NetBIOS name and an IP address corresponding to a different
host name, provides the session and transport services
described in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
NFS
NFS is an acronym for N
etwork File System. It allows hosts to
mount partitions on a remote system and use them as though
they are local file systems.
NFS allows the system administrator to store resources in a
central location on the network, providing authorized users
continuous access to them, which means NFS supports
sharing of files, printers, and other resources as persistent
storage over a computer network.
P
PING
Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a
net
work or the Internet to a specific computer in order to
generate a response from that computer. The other computer
responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets.
Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a
network or the Internet exists and is connected.
ping uses Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets.
T
he PING Request is the packet from the origin computer, and
the PING Reply is the packet response from the target.
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