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Below are some useful terms and their definitions.
Below are some useful terms and their definitions.
ADSL
ADSL and ADSL2
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. ADSL is a technology to transmit digital
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. ADSL is a technology to transmit digital
information at high bandwidths across existing copper phone lines. Download
information at high bandwidths across existing copper phone lines. Download
LDAP
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
PPTP
PPTP (see VPN)
Warning: PPTP is insecure, deprecated and should be avoided
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
Warning: PPTP is completely insecure, deprecated and should be avoided.
RAID1
RAID1
Disk mirroring
Disk mirroring
SSH
SSH
Secure shell. A secure, encrypted way to log in to a remote machine across a network,
Secure shell. A secure, encrypted way to log in to a remote machine across a network,
or to copy files from a local machine to a server
or to copy files from a local machine to a server. It also supports secure file transfer via sFTP or SCP.
VDSL and VDSL2
Very high-speed Digital Dubscriber Line. VDSL can provide up to 52 Mbit/s down and 16 Mbit/s up. VDSL2 can reach rates up to 300+ Mbit/s downstream and upstream.
VPN
VPN
Virtual Private Network (see PPTP)
Virtual Private Network
Currently directly supported protocol is OpenVPN; IPsec/xl2tpd are available as contribs, and coming soon userspace Wireguard support, Wireguard is now part of the Linux kernel.
