Odom Hydrographic Systems, Inc. - FTP Directory Listing

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odomhydrographic.com, USA, 225.769.3051
ECHOTRAC ETHERNET
INTERFACING WITH HYPACK MAX
ETHERNET ETHERNET - A standardized way of connecting computers to create a network.
CLIENT CLIENT – A computer that has access to the network but doesn’t share any of its own resources with the network.
I/O I/O PORT PORT ADDRESS ADDRESS – Every I/O device in a computer – including network interface cards – must be assigned a
unique address. In the old days, you had to configure the port address using DIP switches or jumpers. New
network cards automatically configure their own port addresses.
IP IP ADDRESS
ADDRESS ADDRESS – A string of numbers used to address computers on the internet.
PACKETS PACKETS - Data is sent over the network in manageable chunks called packets, or frames. The size and
makeup of a packet is determined by the protocol being used.
PROTOCOL
PROTOCOL PROTOCOL - Protocols define standardized formats for data packets, techniques for detecting and correcting
errors.
SERVER SERVER – A computer that is on a network and shares resources with other network users.
TCP TCP – Transmission Controlled Protocol, the standard for transmitting data over networks.
UDP UDP – User Datagram Protocol, a connectionless protocol that, like TCP, runs on top of IP networks. Unlike
TCP/IP, UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive
datagrams over an IP network. It's used primarily for broadcasting messages over a network.
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