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Glossary

GL-8 Issue 2 December 1996

manager

A software program housed within a network management

station. The manager has the ability to query agents, receive

agent responses, and set specific variables using various SNMP

commands.

MIB

Management Information Base. The set of variables a gateway

running SNMP maintains. Standard, minimal MIBs have been

defined, and vendors often have private enterprise MIBs. In

theory, any SNMP manager can talk to any SNMP agent with a

properly defined MIB. MIB-II refers to an extended management

database that contains variables not shared by SNMP.

NDIS

Network Device Interface Specification. The NDIS specification

is used for all communication with network adapters. The

specification was developed by Microsoftr and 3COM to provide

a common programming interface for MAC drivers and transport

drivers. NDIS works primarily with LAN manager and allows

multiple protocol stacks to share a single network interface card.

network address

A unique number associated with a host that identifies it to other

hosts during network transactions. This is the network portion of

an IP address. For a class A network, the network address is the

first byte of the IP address. For a class B network, the network

address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a class C

network, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP

address. In each case, the remainder is the host address. In the

Internet, assigned network addresses are globally unique.

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