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| Address Resolution Protocol | protocole ARP (In TCP/IP, a protocol that uses broadcast traffic on the local network to resolve a logically assigned Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address to its physical hardware or media access control (MAC layer address). In asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), ARP is used two different ways. For classical IPv4 over ATM (CLIP), ARP is used to resolve addresses to ATM hardware addreses. For ATM LAN emulation (LANE), ARP is used to resolve Ethernet/802.3 or Token Ring addresses to ATM hardware addresses) |
| Advanced Program-to-Program Communication File Transfer Protocol A file transfer protocol used in IBM host systems, the IBM Advanced Program-to-Program Communications equivalent to the TCP/IP File Transfer Protocol | protocole AFTP (Advanced Program-to-Program Communication File Transfer Protocol) |
| AppleTalk Protocol suite | suite de protocoles AppleTalk (The set of network protocols on which AppleTalk network architecture is based. The AppleTalk Protocol is installed with Services for Macintosh to help users access resources on a network) |
| Authenticated Internet Protocol A protocol extension to Internet Key Exchange (IKE) that supports additional authentication mechanisms and the combination of user and computer authentication requirements | protocole Authenticated IP (Authenticated Internet Protocol) |
| bandwidth allocation protocol | protocole BAP (A Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) control protocol that is used on a multiprocessing connection to dynamically add and remove links) |
| Callback Control Protocol | protocole CBCP (The Network Control Protocol that negotiates the use of callback over PPP links) |
| Centralized Conference Control Protocol | protocole CCCP (A custom protocol for communicating conference creation and control commands from clients to Communications Server) |
| Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol A challenge-response authentication protocol for Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connections described in RFC 1994. It uses the industry-standard MD5 hashing algorithm to hash the combination of a challenge string issued by the authenticating server and the user's password in the response | protocole CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) |
| control protocol plug-in | plug-in de protocole de contrôle (A type of plug-in that enables a Windows Media server to communicate with clients and other servers through different network protocols) |
| Data Center Transmission Control Protocol | protocole TCP de centre de données (A TCP-like protocol for data center networks which leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in the network to provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts) |
| delivery protocol | protocole de remise (The set of communication rules used to route notification messages to external delivery systems) |
| DRT protocol | protocole DRT (The protocol used to exchange cache information and find routes in the DRT mesh) |
| Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | protocole DHCP (A TCP/IP service protocol that offers dynamic leased configuration of host IP addresses and distributes other configuration parameters to eligible network clients. DHCP provides safe, reliable, and simple TCP/IP network configuration, prevents address conflicts, and helps conserve the use of client IP addresses on the network) |
| encoding protocol | protocole de codage (A protocol that governs the structure and content of a business-to-business message. The encoding protocol settings for a business profile define the encoding protocol that a business division uses to send and receive business-to-business messages. Some examples of encoding protocols are X12, EDIFACT, HIPAA, and EANCOM) |
| Encryption Control Protocol | protocole ECP (The Network Control Protocol for negotiating the use of encryption over PPP links. ECP is defined in RFC 1968) |
| File Transfer Protocol | protocole FTP (A member of the TCP/IP suite of protocols, used to copy files between two computers on the Internet. Both computers must support their respective FTP roles: one must be an FTP client and the other an FTP server) |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol | protocole HTTP (The Internet protocol used to deliver information over the World Wide Web) |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer | HTTPS (A message transfer protocol used by the World Wide Web to service page requests, and which adds a security layer using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology) |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure | protocole HTTPS (A message transfer protocol used by the World Wide Web to service page requests, and which adds a security layer using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology) |
| IEEE Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices | IEEE 1667 (The IEEE industry standard that defines methods for authenticating transient removable storage devices (e.g. USB flash drives, memory cards, and portable hard disks) when they are mounted to host computers in corporate, government, academic, and other environments) |
| Internet Control Message Protocol A required maintenance protocol in the TCP/IP suite that reports errors and allows simple connectivity. ICMP is used by the Ping tool to perform TCP/IP troubleshooting | protocole ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) |
| Internet Group Management Protocol | protocole IGMP (A protocol used by Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) hosts to report their multicast group memberships to any immediately neighboring multicast routers) |
| Internet Message Access Protocol 4 | protocole IMAP4 (A standard client/server protocol for receiving e-mail. The user (or the user's e-mail client) can view just the heading and the sender of the letter and then decide whether to download the mail) |
| Internet Message Access Protocol A method computers use to send and receive e-mail messages. It allows you to access e-mail without downloading it to your computer | protocole IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) |
| Internet Protocol | protocole Internet (A routable protocol in the TCP/IP protocol suite that is responsible for IP addressing, routing, and the fragmentation and reassembly of IP packets) |
| Internet Protocol multicasting | émission multiple en protocole Internet (The extension of local area network multicasting technology to a TCP/IP network. Hosts send and receive multicast datagrams, the destination fields of which specify IP host group addresses rather than individual IP addresses. A host indicates that it is a member of a group by means of the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)) |
| Internet Protocol security | sécurité du protocole Internet (A set of industry-standard, cryptography-based services and protocols that help to protect data over a network) |
| Internet Protocol version 4 | protocole IPv4 (An Internet Protocol that has 32-bit source and destination addresses. IPv4 is the predecessor of IPv6) |
| Kerberos V5 authentication protocol | protocole d'authentification Kerberos V5 (An authentication mechanism used to verify user or host identity. The Kerberos V5 authentication protocol is the default authentication service. Internet Protocol security (IPsec) can use the Kerberos protocol for authentication) |
| Layer Two Tunneling Protocol | protocole L2TP (An industry-standard Internet tunneling protocol that provides encapsulation for sending Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames across packet-oriented media. For IP networks, L2TP traffic is sent as User Datagram Protocol (UDP) messages. In Microsoft operating systems, L2TP is used in conjunction with Internet Protocol security (IPSec) as a virtual private network (VPN) technology to provide remote access or router-to-router VPN connections. L2TP is described in RFC 2661) |
| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | protocole LDAP (The primary access protocol for Active Directory. LDAP is an industry-standard protocol, established by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), that allows users to query and update information in a directory service. Active Directory supports both LDAP version 2 and LDAP version 3) |
| Link Control Protocol | protocole LCP (A PPP control protocol that negotiates link and PPP parameters to dynamically configure the data-link layer of a PPP connection) |
| Microsoft Media Server protocol | protocole Microsoft Media Server (A Microsoft protocol that enables content to be streamed over the Internet or an intranet as a unicast stream) |
| MMS protocol | protocole MMS (A Microsoft protocol that enables content to be streamed over the Internet or an intranet as a unicast stream) |
| Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol | protocole MADCAP (An extension to the DHCP protocol standard used to support dynamic assignment and configuration of IP multicast addresses on TCP/IP-based networks) |
| Network News Transfer Protocol | protocole NNTP (A member of the TCP/IP suite of protocols used to distribute network news messages to NNTP servers and clients (newsreaders) on the Internet. NNTP is designed so that news articles are stored on a server in a central database, thus enabling a user to select specific items to read) |
| network protocol | protocole réseau (A set of rules and parameters that defines and enables communication through a network) |
| NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol | protocole de transport compatible NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS (The Microsoft implementation of the Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange (IPX/SPX) protocol used on NetWare networks. NWLink allows connectivity between Windows-based computers and NetWare networks running IPX/SPX. NWLink also provides network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) functionality and the Routing Information Protocol (RIP)) |
| Online Certificate Status Protocol | protocole OCSP (A protocol that allows real-time validation of a certificate's status by having the CryptoAPI make a call to an OCSP responder and the OCSP responder providing an immediate validation of the revocation status for the presented certificate. Typically, an OCSP responder responds with the revocation status check request based on the certificate revocation list (CRL) or other forms of revocation status it retrieves from the certification authorities) |
| Online Certificate Status Protocol responder A computer on which the Online Responder service and Online Responder web proxy are running | répondeur OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) |
| Peer Name Resolution Protocol | protocole PNRP (A standard set of formats and procedures which enables secure and dynamic publication, registration and resolution of computer names and IP addresses including the ability to register multiple names on a single computer, multiple computers to a single name, and have names registered by applications) |
| Point-to-Point Protocol | protocole PPP (A set of industry-standard framing and authentication protocols that are included with Windows to ensure interoperability with other remote access software. PPP negotiates configuration parameters for multiple layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. The Internet standard for serial communications, PPP defines how data packets are exchanged with other Internet-based systems using a modem connection. PPP is documented in RFC 1661) |
| Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet | protocole PPPoE (A specification for connecting users on an Ethernet network to the Internet through a broadband connection, such as a single DSL line, wireless device, or cable modem. Using PPPoE and a broadband modem, LAN users can gain individual authenticated access to high-speed data networks. By combining Ethernet and Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), PPPoE provides an efficient way to create a separate connection for each user to a remote server) |
| Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol | protocole PPTP (Networking technology that supports multiprotocol virtual private networks (VPNs), enabling remote users to access corporate networks securely across the Internet or other networks by dialing into an Internet service provider (ISP) or by connecting directly to the Internet. PPTP tunnels, or encapsulates, Internet Protocol (IP) or Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) traffic inside IP packets. This means that users can remotely run applications that depend on particular network protocols. PPTP is described in RFC 2637) |
| Post Office Protocol version 3 | protocole POP3 (An Internet standard protocol that allows a user to download e-mail from his or her inbox on a server to the client computer where messages are managed. This protocol works well for computers that are unable to maintain a continuous connection to a server) |
| protocol rollover | substitution de protocole (A procedure that enables switching from one protocol to another when a Windows Media server fails to make a connection using a particular protocol) |
| protocol setting | paramètre du protocole (A setting that defines how business transactions are to be supported for a specific business-to-business protocol. Each business profile defines the various settings for processing messages (encoding) or transmitting messages (transport) for each of the business-to-business protocols over which the partner can communicate. A protocol setting can be for encoding protocols or for a transport protocol) |
| PXE protocol | protocole PXE (An extension to the DHCP protocol that enables information to be sent to network-bootable systems and enables these systems to find RIS servers) |
| Real-Time Streaming Protocol | protocole RTSP (A network protocol, defined in RFC 2326, for controlling one or more digital media streams or a presentation (the aggregate of related media streams)) |
| Remote Desktop Protocol A proprietary protocol to provide remote display and input capabilities over network connections for Windows®-based applications between two computers | protocole RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) |
| Resource Reservation Protocol | protocole RSVP (A signaling protocol that allows the sender and receiver in a communication to set up a reserved highway for data transmission with a specified quality of service) |
| Routing Information Protocol | protocole RIP (An industry standard, distance vector routing protocol used in small- to medium-sized Internet Protocol (IP) and Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) internetworks) |
| Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol | protocole S-HTTP (A protocol that provides a secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) connection) |
| security protocol | protocole de sécurité (A specification that defines security-related data objects and rules about how the objects are used to maintain security on a computer system) |
| server-to-server protocol | protocole S2S (An authentication protocol between two servers or services) |
| Service Advertising Protocol | protocole SAP (A NetWare protocol used to identify the services and addresses of servers attached to the network. When a server starts, it uses the protocol to advertise its service. When the same server goes offline, it uses the protocol to announce that it is no longer available) |
| Service Advertising Protocol | protocole SAP (A NetWare protocol used to identify the services and addresses of servers attached to the network. When a server starts, it uses the protocol to advertise its service. When the same server goes offline, it uses the protocol to announce that it is no longer available) |
| Session Initiation Protocol | protocole SIP (A standard signaling protocol for establishing multi-media communications sessions between two or more users over an IP network) |
| Session Initiation Protocol trunking A mechanism for connecting the voice network of an enterprise to a service provider that offers public switched telephone network (PSTN) origination, termination, and emergency services without deploying PSTN gateways | jonction SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) |
| Shiva Password Authentication Protocol A two-way, reversible encryption mechanism for authenticating PPP connections employed by Shiva remote access servers | protocole SPAP (Shiva Password Authentication Protocol) |
| Simple Control Protocol | protocole SCP (A lightweight protocol that enables small devices to communicate with each other over low-speed networks) |
| Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | protocole SMTP (A member of the TCP/IP suite of protocols that governs the exchange of electronic mail between message transfer agents) |
| Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | protocole SMTP (A member of the TCP/IP suite of protocols that governs the exchange of electronic mail between message transfer agents) |
| Simple Network Management Protocol | protocole SNMP (A network protocol used to manage TCP/IP networks. In Windows, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) service is used to provide status information about a host on a TCP/IP network) |
| Simple Network Management Protocol trap | interruption SNMP (An unsolicited Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) packet sent from one SNMP entity to another usually in response to a stimulus or an event on the sending entity) |
| Simple Object Access Protocol | protocole SOAP (A simple, XML-based protocol for exchanging structured data and type information on the World Wide Web. The protocol is currently the de facto standard for XML messaging) |
| S2S protocol | protocole S2S (An authentication protocol between two servers or services) |
| Transmission Control Protocol | protocole TCP (The protocol within TCP/IP that governs the breakup of data messages into packets to be sent via IP, and the reassembly and verification of the complete messages from packets received by IP) |
| Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | protocole TCP/IP (A set of networking protocols widely used on the Internet that provides communications across interconnected networks of computers with diverse hardware architectures and various operating systems. TCP/IP includes standards for how computers communicate and conventions for connecting networks and routing traffic) |
| transport protocol | protocole de transfert (A protocol that governs the transport channel used for sending messages back and forth between two partners. With respect to trading partner management (TPM), only the AS2 protocol is supported) |
| Trivial File Transfer Protocol | protocole TFTP (A formal set of format, timing, sequencing, and error control rules for transferring files to and from a remote computer system running the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) service) |
| User Datagram Protocol | protocole UDP (A connectionless transport protocol in the TCP/IP protocol stack that is used in cases where some packet loss is acceptable, for example, with digital media streams) |
| Voice over Internet Protocol | protocole voix sur IP (The use of the Internet Protocol (IP) for transmitting voice communications. VoIP delivers digitized audio in packet form and can be used to transmit over intranets, extranets, and the Internet. It is essentially an inexpensive alternative to traditional telephone communication over the circuit-switched Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). VoIP covers computer-to-computer, computer-to-telephone, and telephone-based communications. For the sake of compatibility and interoperability, a group called the VoIP Forum promotes product development based on the ITU-T H.323 standard to transmit multimedia over the Internet) |
| WebSocket protocol | protocole WebSocket (A feature of Internet Information Services (IIS) that lets the server establish a long-running, full-duplex, bidirectional TCP connection to the client and that lets the server push data to the client) |
| Wireless Application Protocol A standard protocol for providing Internet communications and advanced telephony services on phones, pagers, PDAs, and other wireless terminals | protocole WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) |