Network Terms

As modern gaming is very often also about multi player via a network (be it the internet or a LAN), here is a selection of terms, that can be important to a gamer.

• Broadcast
• Client
• DHCP
• Firewall
• Host
• IPX
• Loss
• Network Address
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Network
• Peer_to_peer
• Port
• Port Forwarding
• Protocol
• Server
• Subnet
• Subnet Mask
• TCP
• UDP
• VPN
• Zero Conf

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