In a network without a central server, each single station in the network group is called a "peer".

Any of the devices on a layered communications network that operate on the same protocol level.

a piece of software, running on a network device, which manages a specific MIB module. A peer receives requests from, and issues responses to, an SNMP agent via the SMUX protocol.

a computer that exists on a network at the same level as another with similar access privileges

One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

To make equal in rank.

To be, or to assume to be, equal.

An age-mate.

A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

A nobleman that is a duke, marquis, earl, viscount, or baron, all such titles being hereditary and entitling the owner to a seat in the House of Lords.

Generally a class-descriptive term applied to those of baronialHouse of Lords. Over time, the word has come to describe the members of the ‘greater nobility' who ruled over the general knightly classes.

a member of the nobility, especially in Britain; an equal, as in being tried by a jury of one's peers.

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Connected party that is willing to exchange IP traffic with you through the exchange of (BGP) routing information.

a BGP router that establishes a connection with BGP speaker and exchanges message router that sends, receives, and processes BGP messages

In the context of this document, a peer refers to a PIX Firewall or other device, such as a Cisco router, that participates in IPSec, IKE, and CA.

(1) (n.) In networking, a hardware or software unit that is in the same protocol layer as another unit.(2) (n.) In Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), an individual computer at one end of a PPP communications link, which consists of two peers that are connected by communications media. You can configure many types of computing equipment as a peer, such as a workstation, personal computer, router, or mainframe.

the PPP implementation at the other (far) end of the link.

a computation environment which is external to ECLiPSe, either in the sense of being a different computer language or being a different process, possibly on a different machine

a computer which is at the same time a client and a server

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

A friend or companion who is the same age or at the same developmental level

a person of your own age who tries to influence you to do whatever he/she does

pi[(r) / n. someone of the same age, social class etc as you