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| Below are some useful terms and their definitions. | | Below are some useful terms and their definitions. |
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− | 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 |
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| 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 |
− | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (see VPN)
| + | Warning: PPTP is completely insecure, deprecated and should be avoided. |
| RAID1 | | RAID1 |
| Disk mirroring | | Disk mirroring |
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| 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. |