hop

<messaging>

1. One point-to-point transmission in a series required to get a message from point A to point B on a store and forward network. On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the hop count of the shortest path between them. This can be more significant than their geographical separation.

Each exclamation mark in a bang path represents one hop.

<networking>

2. One direct host-to-host connection forming part of the route between two hosts in a routed network such as the Internet. Some protocols place an upper limit on the hop count in order to detect routing loops.

<jargon, networking>

3. To log in to a remote computer, especially via rlogin or telnet. "I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that."

[Jargon File]

Last updated: 1997-06-25

Nearby terms:

Honeywell-800 Business Compiler ♦ HOOD ♦ HOOK ♦ hook ♦ hop ♦ Hope ♦ Hope+ ♦ Hope+C ♦ Hopfield model

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