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  2. Port (computer networking) - Wikipedia

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    In computer networking, a port or port number is a number assigned to uniquely identify a connection endpoint and to direct data to a specific service. At the software level, within an operating system , a port is a logical construct that identifies a specific process or a type of network service .

  3. Cisco Inter-Switch Link - Wikipedia

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    A VLAN ID is added only if the frame is forwarded out a port configured as a trunk link. If the frame is to be forwarded out a port configured as an access link, the ISL encapsulation is removed. The size of an Ethernet encapsulated ISL frame can be expected to start from 94 bytes and increase up to 1548 bytes because of the overhead ...

  4. Media Redundancy Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) is a data network protocol standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission as IEC 62439-2. It allows rings of Ethernet switches to overcome any single failure with recovery time much faster than achievable with Spanning Tree Protocol. [1] It is suitable to most industrial Ethernet applications.

  5. Machine-readable document - Wikipedia

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    The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of the presentation of the document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it.

  6. PDF - Wikipedia

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    A PDF file is organized using ASCII characters, except for certain elements that may have binary content. The file starts with a header containing a magic number (as a readable string) and the version of the format, for example %PDF-1.7. The format is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. [24]

  7. Local Area Transport - Wikipedia

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    Local Area Transport (LAT) [1] [2] is a non-routable (data link layer) networking technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation [3] to provide connection between the DECserver terminal servers and Digital's VAX and Alpha and MIPS host computers via Ethernet, giving communication between those hosts and serial devices such as video terminals and printers.

  8. Discard Protocol - Wikipedia

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    The discard service is usually not enabled by default. It may be enabled by adding the following lines to the file /etc/inetd.conf and reloading the configuration: discard stream tcp nowait root internal discard dgram udp wait root internal The Discard Protocol is the TCP/UDP equivalent of the Unix file-system node /dev/null. Such a service is ...

  9. XCOM Data Transport - Wikipedia

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    Its installed based grew very rapidly at first because it was one of the first third party products to be based upon the then advanced networking technology from IBM, known as IBM Advanced Program-to-Program Communication, which allowed faster and more reliable communication between different types of computers.