👉 Unbackboarded is a term used in the field of computer science and software engineering, specifically in the context of network protocols. It refers to a protocol or system that does not support backlinking between different hosts on the same network. In other words, an unbackboarded protocol would have no direct means of linking two hosts together, such as by using an IP address or TCP/UDP port number. Instead, it relies on other protocols like ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) to find