The words used by network engineers to talk about networks. This jargon tends to consist of slews of acronyms like SNMP, SMTP, FTP, and TFTP. It also couples these with unusual meanings for everyday words such as route, switch, and tunnel.

Other people who have to listen to network engineers talk for any length of time will sometimes complain that they are no longer speaking English.

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