FOSS Network Infrastructure and Security/Glossary

 FOSS Network Infrastructure and Security 

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Foreword — List of Abbreviations — Introduction to FOSS and GNU/Linux — Network Concepts and Architectures — Major Networking Functions with FOSS — Security Functions with FOSS — Network Planning — Further References — Glossary — About the Author — Acknowledgements — About APDIP — About IOSN

Client	A client is a computer on the network which uses the server to get resources which may be e-mails, documents, or other forms of data.
Deamon	In UNIX and GNU/Linux, daemons are server software that constantly run on top of the operating system.
Host	Any device connected to the Internet or a TCP/IP network is referred to as the host.
IEFT	The Internet Engineering Task Force is the Internet standards making organization. IETF publishes the RFC series documents as Internet standards. See http://www.ietf.org.