Confirmation flag in the ACK (AcknowledgeGment) TCP header
API (Application Programming Interface Application Programming Interface
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) address resolution protocol
Arpanet (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Network) (US) National Defense Vision Research Planning Bureau
AS (AutoMous System) Autonomous System
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) US Information Exchange Standard Code
ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) Abstract Syntax Notes 1
BER (Basic Encoding Rule) Basic Code Rules
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Boundary Gateway Agreement
Bind (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) Berkeley Internet Domain
Bootp (Bootstrap Protocol) boot program protocol
BPF (BSD Packet Filter) BSD Packet Filter
CiDR (ClassSs Interdomain Routing) No types of domains
Commercial Internet Exchange Commercial Internet Exchange
CLNP (ConnectionLess Network Protocol) No connection network protocol
CYCLIC Redundancy Check Cycle Redundancy Test
CSLIP (Compressed Slip) compressed SLIP
CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access) carrier listening multi-channel access
DCE (DATA CIRCUIT-TERMINATING EQUIPMENT) Data Circuit Targeting
DDN (Defense Data NetWork) Defense Data Network
Difdui Fraglet in DF (DON't Fragment) IP
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DLPI (Data Link Provider Interface) Data Link Provider Interface
DNS (Domain Name System) Domain Name System
Destination Service Access Point of DSAP (Destination Service Access Point)
DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer) Digital User Line Access Multiplexer
Direct sequence spread spectrum in DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum)
DTS (Distributed Time Service) Distributed Time Services
DVMRP (Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol) Distance Multicast Pagger Agreement
Ebone (European IP Backbone) European IP
EOL (End of Option List) options end
EGP (External Gateway Protocol) External Gateway Agreement
EIA (Electronic Industries Association) US Electronics Industry Association
FCS (FRAME CHECK SEQUENCE) frame test sequence
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FIFO (First In, First Out) advanced first
FIN (FINISH) TCP's end sign
FQDN (Full Qualified Domain Name) completely qualified domain name
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) file transfer protocol
HDLC (High-Level Data Lin CONTROL) Advanced Data Link Control
Hello selection protocol
IAB (Internet Architecture Board) Internet Architecture Board IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) Internet Number Association
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Internet Control Packet Protocol
IdRP (InterDomain Routing Protocol) Domain Election Agreement
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering) (USA) Electrical and Electronic Engineer Association
Ien (Internet Experiment Notes) Internet Test Note
IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group) Internet Engineering Guidance Group
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force "internet engineering expert group
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) internet group management protocol
IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) internal gateway protocol
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) Internet Packet Access Agreement
IP (Internet Protocol) internet protocol
I RTF (Internet Research Task Force) Internet Research Special Group
IS-IS (Intermediate System To Intermediate System Protocol) Intermediate System Protocol
ISN (Initial Sequence Number) initial number
International Standardization of ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
ISOC (Internet Society) Internet Association
LAN (Local Area NetWork)
LBX (Low Bandwidth X) low bandwidth x
LCP (Link Control Protocol link control protocol
LFN (Long Fat Net) Changfei Network
Livo (Last In, First Out)
LLC (Logical Link Control) Location Link Control
Loose Source and Record Route is loose source station and record route
MBONE (Multicast Backbone on the Internet) Internet multicast main network
MIB (Management Information Base) Management Information Library
Milnet (MILITARY NETWORK) military network
MIME (MULTIPURPOSE Internet Mail Extensions) Universal Internet Mail Expansion
MSL (Maximum Segment Lifetime) message to the maximum survival time
MSS (Maximum Segment Size "maximum report length
M TA (Message Transfer Agent) packet delivery agent
MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) Maximum Transmission Unit
NCP (Network Control Protocol) Network Control Protocol
NFS (Network File System) Network File System
NIC (Network Information Center Network Information Center
NIT (Network Interface TAP) Network Interface Pie (one of Sun Company)
NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) Network News Transfer Protocol
NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories) Country Optical Observatory NOP (No Operation)
NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) National Science Fund Network
NSI (NASA Science Internet) (USA) NASAC INTERNet
NTP (Network Time Protocol) Network Time Agreement
NVT (Network Virtual Terminal) Network Virtual Terminal
OSF (Open Software Foudation) Open Software Fund
OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) open system interconnection
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) opens the shortest passage priority
PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Number) Prevents Winding Sequence Number
PDU (Protocol Data Unit) protocol data unit
POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) Portable Operating System Interface
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol point-to-point protocol
PSH (Push) TCP's urgent mark
Rarp (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol) reverse address resolution protocol
RFC (Request for Comments) Internet documents, some of which become standard documents
RIP (Routing Information Protocol) Routing Information Protocol
RPC (Remote Procedure Call) Remote Process Call
RR (Resource Record) resource record
RST (RESET) TCP's reset flag
RTO (RTRANSMISION TIME OUT) retransmission timeout
RTT (Round-Trip Time) round-trip time
Sack (Selective Acknowledgment) has a selected confirmation
SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMI (Structure of Management Information) Management Information Structure
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Simple Network Management Agreement
SSAP (Source Service Access Point) source service access point
SSRR (Strict Source and Record Route) strict source station and record route
SWS (Silly Window Syndrome Pair Window Syndrome
Synchronous serial number flag in SYN (SYNCHRONOUS) TCP
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Transmission Control Protocol
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) Simple File Transfer Protocol
TLI (Transport Layer Interface) transportation layer interface
TTL (Ti M E - to-Live) Survival Time or Life
TUBA (TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses "TCP and UDP with longer addresses
Telnet Remote Terminal Protocol
UA (User Agent) User Agent
UDP (User DataGram Protocol) User Data News Agreement
URG (Urgent) TCP Emergency Pointer Sign
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) Coordination
UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX Copy) Unix to Unix Copy
WAN (WiDe Area Network) WAN
WWW (World Wide Web) World Wide Web XDR (External Data Reperesentation) External Data Representation
XID (Transaction ID) Transaction Identifier
XTi (X / Open Transport Layer Interface) X / Open Transportation Layer Interface
