Networking Glossary
- repeater A device which propagates electrical signals from one cable to another without making routing decisions or providing packet filtering. In OSI terminology, a repeater is a Physical Layer intermediate system. See bridge and router. [Source: RFC 1208]
- RFC (Request For Comments) The document series, begun in 1969, which describes the Internet suite of protocols and related experiments. Not all (in fact very few) RFCs describe Internet standards, but all Internet standards are written up as RFCs. [Source: RFC 1208]
- RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) European association of research networks. [Source: RFC 1208]
- RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeenne) European continental TCP/IP network operated by EUnet. See EUnet. [Source: RFC 1208]
- RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol) The Internet protocol a diskless host uses to find its Internet address at startup. RARP maps a physical (hardware) address to an Internet address. See ARP. [Source: RFC 1208]
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