Person with unlimited access to all features of a local network; responsible for the administration and maintenance of the network. Among other tasks, the administrator assigns IP addresses within the [..]

ARP is used for the mapping of IP address to the respective Ethernet address of a network participant. The detected assignments are administered in the ARP table of each individual computer. In Window [..]

Workstations or applications that establish connections to servers to employ the respective services. The best known client is the web browser that connects to a web server. Basically all Internet ser [..]

Systems with "distributed intelligence", where a client establishes a connection to a server to avail of its services. Certain server applications are able to simultaneously serve mu [..]

Small terminal devices in TCP/IP-Ethernet networks, providing interfaces for serial devices and digital I/O ports via the network. Com-Servers can be used as servers or clients respectively.

Dynamic, temporary assignment of IP addresses from an address pool. DHCP is used to automatically configure TCP/IP networks. The configuration does therefore not require any manual modifications and i [..]

Network stations on the Internet are accessed via numerical IP addresses. However, as names can be better remembered than numbers, the DNS system was introduced. When a domain name is entered by the u [..]

DNS servers are part of the Internet and provide a service where domain names are "translated" into IP addresses.

Unchangeable physical address of a network component in an Ethernet.

A firewall is a set of network components that, similar to a router connect an internal network (intranet) to a public network (e.g. Internet). Access to the other network can thereby be limited or fu [..]