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Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC)
Permanent Virtual Circuit is a form of telecommunications service for wide area networks (WANs) that provides a dedicated switched circuit between two nodes in a circuit-switched network.
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Pass-Through Authentication
Pass-Through Authentication is a method of performing authentication to a domain controller that resides in a trusted domain.
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Parent Domain
Parent Domain is a domain in a Microsoft Windows Server domain tree whose Domain Name System (DNS) name forms the basis of subdomains called child domains.
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Packet Forwarding
Packet Forwarding is the process of a networking component accepting a packet and transmitting it to its destination.
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Out-of-Band Management (OBM)
OBM stands for Out-of-Band Management, is a method of remotely managing the wide area network (WAN) telecommunications components of your network by using a secondary serial communication link.
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Organizational Unit (OU)
Organizational Unit is a type of container object in Active Directory of Microsoft Windows 2000 that can contain other Active Directory objects.
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NTFS special permissions (Windows NT)
NTFS Special Permissions are individual permissions granted or denied when NTFS file system standard permissions are not sufficiently granular for specific security purposes.
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The Networks File: A Relic of Past Networking
Discover the legacy of the Networks File in Windows systems. Learn how it worked, how it differs from Hosts and lmhosts files, and why it’s obsolete.
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NetBIOS Scope ID
NetBIOS Scope ID is a character string appended to a NetBIOS name of a host that identifies the host as belonging to a specific group.
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NetBIOS name resolution
NetBIOS Name Resolution is the process by which the NetBIOS name of a computer is resolved to its IP address.
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Namespace
Namespace is the abstract space or collection of all possible addresses, names, or identifiers of objects on a network, internetwork, or the Internet.
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Nagle’s Algorithm: The Network’s Silent Maestro
Nagle’s algorithm is an algorithm used in implementations of TCP/IP that controls traffic congestion on a network.