THE UNIX ACRONYM LIST

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.

A B C D H I N P R S T U

AcronymMeaning
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

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