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This appendix provides a list of the terms and acronyms used within this book along with their meaning.
ACK | Acknowledge |
ALGOL | ALGOrithmic Language |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
API | Application Program Interface |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
BASIC | Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
BBC | British Broadcasting Company |
BCPL | Basic Combined Programming Language |
BSD | Berkeley Source Distribution |
CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
CPAN | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network |
CWI | Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica |
DF | Don’t Fragment |
DNS | Domain Name System |
EOF | End of File |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
FIFO | First In, First Out |
FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
GCC | GNU C Compiler |
GNU | GNU’s Not Unix |
HBO | Host Byte Order |
HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
htonl | Host To Network Long |
htons | Host To Network Short |
HTTP | HyperText Transport Protocol |
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
IDLE | Integrated DeveLopment Environment |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
I/O | Input/Output |
IPC | InterProcess Communication |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IPv4 | Internet Protocol Version 4 |
IPv6 | Internet Protocol Version 6 |
ISO | International Standards Organization |
JDK | Java Development Kit |
JRE | Java Runtime Environment |
JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
KB | KiloByte |
LAN | Local Area Network |
MAC | Medium Access Control |
MB | MegaByte |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MSS | Maximum Segment Size |
MTU | Maximum Transfer Unit |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
NBO | Network Byte Order |
ntohl | Network To Host Long |
ntohs | Network To Host Short |
OOB | Out-of-Band |
PDU | Protocol Data Unit |
PERL | Practical Extraction and Report Language |
PEP | Python Enhancement Proposal |
POP3 | Post Office Protocol, Version 3 |
PSF | Python Software Foundation |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
RDP | Reliable Datagram Protocol |
RDM | Reliably Delivered Messages |
RDMA | Remote Direct Memory Access |
RFC | Request for Comments |
RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
RTT | Round Trip Time |
SCTP | Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
SED | Stream Editor |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
STD | Standard |
SYN | Synchronize |
TCL | Tool Command Language |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
TOS | Type of Service |
TTL | Time to Live |
UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
UDP | Universal Datagram Protocol |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
USENET | User’s Network |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
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