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D
Acronyms
Table D–1 shows DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS acronyms and other
acronyms related to TCP/IP networking.
Table D–1 Acronyms
Acronym Meaning
ACK acknowledgment
ACL access control list
ACP ancillary control process
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API application programming interface
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATM asynchronous transfer mode
BBS Bulletin Board System
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
bps bits per second
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
CFS container file system
CFSRTL container file system run-time library
CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCL Digital Command Language
DEK data encryption key
DES data encryption standard
DNS Domain Name Service
eSNMP extensible Simple Network Management Protocol
EGP External Gateway Protocol
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
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