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M

Maintenance and support, 381–403

cabling, 397–401

conclusion, 402–3

cooperative programs, 396–97

do-it-yourself, 382–90

equipment requirements, 391–94

firms, 395–96

introduction, 381–82

operating systems, 401–2

operations management, 389–90

reporting requirements, 390–91

resource requirements, 384

technical support, 388–89

user support, 384–88

vendor and carrier services, 394–95

Maintenance rerouting, 71

Management agents, 260–61

Management information base (MIB), 261–62

browsers, 262

defined, 261

editors, 262

object list, 261

tool kits, 261–62

See also Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Management station, 259–60

Manchester encoding, 6

Media access control (MAC), 4–5

data encapsulation/decapsulation, 4–5

defined, 4

media access management, 5

See also Ethernet

Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), 123–24

connection model, 123

connection networks, 124

defined, 123

as internal protocol, 124

MGCs, 123

physical endpoint examples, 123

SS7 and, 124

Media-independent interface (MII) specification, 11

Medium access unit (MAU), 8

Mesh networks, 59

Mirrored servers, 64

Mirror site, 69

Mobile IP, 136–38

broadcasts, 137

control agent advertisements, 138

host redirects, 137–38

lifetime, 137

registration requirement, 137

relay protection, 137

timestamps, 137

Mon, 281–83

asynchronous event support, 282

defined, 281

extensibility, 281–82

parallel tasking support, 283

Monitoring

disk use, 43–44

file use, 41

performance, 142–44

remote, 263–69

Multicast addresses, filtering, 145

Multicast virtual circuits (MVCs), 227–28

Multiplexers, 184–91

bit-oriented, 191

byte-oriented, 190–91

ESF use, 189

points of differentiation, 187–91

PRI-equipped, 197

statistical time division, 185–87

T1, 189

time division, 185

types of, 185

See also TDM infrastructures

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), 110, 114–16, 238

defined, 114

labeling, 114

LIB, 114

LSPs, 114

LSRs, 114

routers, 115

security, 116

See also Routing protocols

Multirouter traffic grapher (MRTG), 280

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