- LAN
- Acronym for Local Area Network, a LAN is a network contained within a
single physical site (one or more buildings), as opposed to a
WAN.
- Lag
- The delay in information coming across the network through
telnet or other types of connections,
usually caused by a slow or error-prone connection somewhere between the
two communicating machines. Technically there are two causes of lag,
the second being chew.
- Lame
- A user who behaves in a stupid or uneducated manner, a description often
applied to newbies.
- Layer
- Network protocols consist of several layers, from the lowest physical
(cable, fiber, etc) level to more abstract layers of signaling, data
formats, and addressing standards.
Under the
OSI model
there are seven layers.
- LCP
- Link Control Protocol. The low-level communications protocol used in
PPP to negotiate and maintain the
(usually serial) communications link.
- LDAP
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a standard mechanism
for accessing X.500 and other directory services.
- leased-line
- A leased-line is a dedicated (thus "leased") connection linking two
or more points without going through any switching equipment.
See also:
T1,
T3,
ISDN and the
ISDN Glossary
- LPD
- Line Printer Daemon.
The Unix standard print service daemon listens on
TCP> port 515 for print service requests. Windows
NT Server 4.0 includes lpd emulation as 'TCP/IP print services'.
Defined in RFC
1179.
- Lurk
- Following a
newsgroup or sitting on an
IRC channel and reading the messages without saying
anything, as if you were 'lurking in the shadows', staying out of sight of
the other users.
- ls
- Unix command
used to list files and directories.
- LWP
- Lan Work Place.
A Novell product allowing both
IP and
IPX
on the same
MS/DOS machine.
- Lynx
A popular text-only
web
browser,
distributed by the University of Kansas.