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unusual facts about network protocol



Nortel Discovery Protocol

The Nortel Discovery Protocol (NDP) is a Data Link Layer (OSI Layer 2) network protocol for discovery of Nortel networking devices and certain products from Avaya and Ciena.

Spider Systems

Spider Systems produced a wide range of products, including terminal servers, routers, network bridges, network analysers and network protocol software stacks for various operating systems, including the TCP/IP stack used in Microsoft Windows NT 3.1.


see also

3+Share

3+Share included the EtherShare and EtherPrint protocols, which leveraged Xerox's XNS network protocol.

Battle.net

A group of gamers reverse engineered the network protocol used by Battle.net and Blizzard games, and released a free (under the GNU GPL) Battle.net emulation package called bnetd.

HVAC

BACnet—An open-source network protocol used for Building Automation Control

Internet Stream Protocol

ST arose as the transport protocol of the Network Voice Protocol, a pioneering computer network protocol for transporting human speech over packetized communications networks, first implemented in December 1973 by Internet researcher Danny Cohen of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) as part of ARPA's Network Secure Communications (NSC) project.

RELOAD

For the network protocol in the TCP/IP protocol stack known as RELOAD see REsource LOcation And Discovery Framing.

Tunneling

Tunneling protocol, transmitting one computer network protocol that is encapsulated inside another network protocol