AppleTalk is a networking protocol

Big Brother is a service monitoring tool provided by ITS Distributed Computing Group and Network Operations: status.ucsc.edu/bb. The status of services on ITS web, mail, unix and other servers can be [..]

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, allows machines to obtain a legal IP address

Domain Name Services (DNS) provides a mechanism that allows clients to remember logical machine names rather than IP addresses

Ethernet is a hardware and software specification used for much of the campus network. All personal computers and servers on the campus network should have 10BaseT

Transmision Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is the network protocol

An IP address is a series of four numbers separated by dots ('.'), each of which is between 0 and 255. An IP address must be unique to a machine or the network will not be able to properly d [..]

UCSC's IP administrative network number is 128.114. The ResNet IP network number is 169.233.

The subnet number is defined by ITS/Network Operations. Every machine on a subnet has an IP address that begins with the campus network number followed by the subnet's number. For example, my mac [..]

Nocol is a ITS/Network Operations service which reports routers, switches, and other network devices which do not respond to queries. Usually means that the target machine is down or unreachable.