FOSS Network Infrastructure and Security/List of Abbreviations
FOSS Network Infrastructure and Security
Foreword — List of Abbreviations — Introduction to FOSS and GNU/Linux — Network Concepts and Architectures — Major Networking Functions with FOSS — Security Functions with FOSS — Network Planning — Further References — Glossary — About the Author — Acknowledgements — About APDIP — About IOSN
| ACL | Access Control List |
|---|---|
| APDIP | Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme |
| APNIC | Asia Pacific Network Information Centre |
| APRICOT | Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies |
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Program Agency Network |
| BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
| BO | Branch Office |
| ccTLD | Country Code Top Level Domain |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CIDR | Classless Inter Domain Routing |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| FOSS | Free/Open Source Software |
| BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
| GPL | General Public License |
| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| gTLD | Global Top Level Domain |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IOSN | International Open Source Network |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LGPL | Lesser General Public License |
| MTA | Mail Transfer Agent |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NetBEUI | NetBIOS Extended User Interface |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NOS | Network Operating System |
| OS | Operating System |
| PCH | Packet Clearing House |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RBL | Real Time Block List |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RIR | Regional Internet Registry |
| SANOG | South Asian Network Operators Group |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SRI-NIC | Stanford Research Institute-Network Information Center |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UCE | Unsolicited Commercial E-mail |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
Note:- While Wi-Fi is often considered as an abbreviation of Wireless Fidelity, this is a misconception. Wi-Fi is simply a trademarked phrase that means IEEE 802.11x. [1]