RMON and TCP/IP

Remote Monitoring MIBs (RMON1, RMON2)

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RMON: Remote Monitoring MIBs (RMON1 and RMON2) Remote Monitoring (RMON) is a standard monitoring specification that enables various network monitors and console systems to exchange network-monitoring data. RMON provides network administrators with more freedom in selecting network-monitoring probes and consoles with features that meet their particular networking needs. RMON was originally developed to address the […]

RDP and TCP/IP

Reliable Data Protocol (RDP)

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Reliable Data Protocol (RDP) The Reliable Data Protocol (RDP) is designed to provide a reliable data transport service for packet-based applications such as remote loading and debugging.  The protocol is intended to be simple to implement but still be efficient in environments where there may be long transmission delays and loss or non-sequential delivery of […]

POP3 and TCP/IP

Post Office Protocol (POP3)

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Post Office Protocol 3 The overall communication model used for TCP/IP email provides many options to an email user for accessing her electronic mailbox. The most popular access method today is the simple offline access model, in which a client device accesses a server, retrieves mail, and deletes it from the server. POP was designed […]

NTP and TCP/IP

Network Time Protocol (NTP) – Version 3

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  Network Time Protocol (NTP) – Version 3 The Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 3, which is used to synchronize timekeeping among a set of distributed time servers and clients. It defines the architectures, algorithms, entities, and protocols used by NTP. NTP was first described in RFC-958. NTP Version 2 described in RFC-1119. It is […]

NNTP and TCP/IP

Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

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Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)   We are by nature both highly social and creative animals, and as a result, we are always finding new ways to communicate. It did not take long after computers were first connected together for it to be recognized that those interconnections provided the means to link together people as […]

NAT and TCP/IP

IP Network Address Translation (NAT) Protocol

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IP Network Address Translation (NAT) Protocol   To help extend the life of the IPv4 addressing scheme while the newer IPv6 protocol is developed and deployed, other technologies have been developed. One of the most important of these is IP Network Address Translation (NAT). This technology allows a small number of public IP addresses to […]