Communications Protocols/TCP Services
Acronyms that are Unix commands as well as protocols, like ftp or telnet, are listet in the Unix Commands section.
For a list of many Internet protocols see RFC 1700.
Acronym | Meaning |
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ARP | address resolution protocol |
biff | not an acronym (name of a dog) |
bootp | bootstrap protocol |
chargen | character generator |
DHCP | dynamic host configuration protocol |
http | hypertext transfer protocol |
ICMP | Internet control message protocol |
IMAP2 | interim mail access protocol, version 2 |
IP | Internet protocol |
nntp | network news transfer protocol |
NTP | network time protocol |
POP3 | post office protocol version 3 |
PPP | point-to-point protocol |
PPTP | point-to-point tunneling protocol |
RARP | reverse ARP |
RIP | routing information protocol |
shtml | server-parsed HTML |
SLIP | serial line Internet protocol |
SMTP | simple mail transfer protocol |
SNMP | simple network management protocol |
TCP | transmission control protocol |
tftp | trivial file transfer protocol |
TNS | transparent network substrate |
UDP | user datagram protocol |