A PAD accepts characters from a conventional terminal and sends them across an X.25 network. A portion of a packet that contains a specific kind of information. For example, the data field in a packet contains the data being transmitted between applications. The header field can contain information identifying the packet type and any error-checking mechanisms. The ability to search a packet to determine destination and then route the packet or block it.
Packet filters help control network traffic.
A technology for sending data over a network - the Internet, for example. The data that emerges from a connected device is broken into chunks called packets. Data packets from many different sources can travel along the same lines and be sorted and directed through different routes by routers along the way. When all the packets forming a message arrive at the destination, they are recompiled into the original message. Packet-Level Inverse Multiplexing A method of inverse multiplexing in which the inverse mux performs its function at the packet level using the MP or MPP protocol.