AppleTalk is a networking protocol

Big Brother is a service monitoring tool provided by ITS Distributed Computing Group and Network Operations: status.ucsc.edu/bb. The status of services on ITS web, mail, unix and other servers can be [..]

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, allows machines to obtain a legal IP address

Domain Name Services (DNS) provides a mechanism that allows clients to remember logical machine names rather than IP addresses

Ethernet is a hardware and software specification used for much of the campus network. All personal computers and servers on the campus network should have 10BaseT

An IP address is a series of four numbers separated by dots ('.'), each of which is between 0 and 255. An IP address must be unique to a machine or the network will not be able to properly d [..]

The subnet number is defined by ITS/Network Operations. Every machine on a subnet has an IP address that begins with the campus network number followed by the subnet's number. For example, my mac [..]

nslookup is a UNIX command that queries a DNS

ping is a simple program that attempts to make a very basic kind of connection to a target machine. If the target machine responds ping alerts you that it is "alive", otherwise ping returns [..]

or Gateway