Glossary

AES

An abbreviation for Advanced Encryption Standard).

BPF

An abbreviation for Berkley Packet Filter.

BSS

An abbreviation for Basic Service Set. Also known as Infrastructure Mode.

CA

An abbreviation for Certification Authority.

EAP-TLS

An abbreviation for Extensible Authentication Protocol - Transport Layer Security.

IBSS

An abbreviation for Independent Basic Service Set.

mbuf

An abbreviation for memory buffer, the internal representation of a packet used by NetBSD and io-pkt.

NAT

An abbreviation for Network Address Translation.

npkt

The name of the internal representation of a packet used by io-net.

SA

An abbreviation for Security Association.

SOHO

An abbreviation for Small Office, Home Office.

SPD

An abbreviation for security policy database.

spoofing

The faking of IP addresses, typically for malicious purposes.

SSID

An abbreviation for Service Set Identifier.

STP

An abbreviation for Spanning Tree Protocol.

TDP

An abbreviation for Transparent Distributed Processing. Neutrino's native networking (Qnet) that lets you access resources on other Neutrino systems as if they were on your own machine.

TKIP

An abbreviation for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.

TLS

An abbreviation for Transport Layer Security.

TTLS

An abbreviation for Tunneled Transport Layer Security.

UDP

An abbreviation for User Datagram Protocol.

WAP

An abbreviation for Wireless Access Point. Also known as a base station.

WEP

An abbreviation for Wired Equivalent Privacy.

WLAN

An abbreviation for Wireless Local Area Network.

WPA

An abbreviation for Wi-Fi Protected Access.