Definition of terms
Can anyone steer me to a book or other source of definitions for and explanations of the terms used in this technology?
What is a Subnet Mask? Net Mask? WAN IP Address? LAN IP Address? VPI? VCI? and so on.
If just one hardware manufacturer could get it through their heads that most of their customers aren't Wi-Fi nerds, and have only a minimal understanding of these terms, then present their system setup facilities to us such that we could understand them, I'm sure this manufacturer could take the market away from all those who persist in keeping all such information encoded and deeply concealed in NERD LANGUAGE.
The setup instructions for my LinkSys components all mention IP address in several different regions of the setup process, but leaves me guessing as to which particular IP address they are referring to. I have precious little insight as to what specific IP address the setup program is referring to...LAN IP, WAN IP, ISP IP, or what ever.
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Gordon in Wireless Networking
