ZA-4000 User’s Manual
technologies exist to implement a LAN, Ethernet is the most common
for connecting personal computers.
A long distance link used to extend or connect remotely located local
area networks. The Internet is a large WAN.
MAC Address
Short for Media Access Control address, a hardware address that
uniquely identifies each node of a network.
NetBIOS
Network Basic Input Output System. An application programming
interface (API) for sharing services and information on local-area
networks (LANs). Provides for communication between stations of a
network where each station is given a name. These names are
alphanumeric names, 16 characters in length.
Ping
A command line program in Windows, use it to check the connection
whether is reachable.
Router
A device that forwards data between networks. An IP router forwards
data based on IP source and destination addresses.
Web-based Graphical
User Interface (GUI)
In this kind of user interface, user can use Microsoft Internet Explorer
or other browser to control, guard and manage the device.
WINS Server
WINS. Windows Internet Naming Service is a server process for
resolving Windows-based computer names to IP addresses. If a remote
network contains a WINS server, your Windows PCs can gather
information from that WINS server about its local hosts. This allows
your PCs to browse that remote network using the Windows Network
Neighborhood feature.
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