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Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Client Adapters Installation and Configuration Guide for MS-DOS
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Chapter 3 Installing the Software Driver Keywords and Settings
•Active scanning with 3-Kusec energy detect time and 20-Kusec probe response wait timeout.
•Rescan if 8 beacons are con sec utively missed.
•Send an access point keep-alive m essage every 10 seconds.
The following tables contain keywords and parameter settings common to both the NDIS2
PROTOCOL.INI, ODI NET.CFG, and the PKT CSCPKT.INI configuration files.
Basic System Parameters
Basic system operation can b e a dj u sted w it h th e f o ll owi ng p ar am e ter s.
Table3- 4 Genera l N e two rk Parame te rs
Parameter (Keyword) Value Description
INFRASTRUCTURE ON, YES
OFF, NO (Optional)—Specifies whether system
operation uses an infrastructure or
peer-to-peer/ad hoc network.
Default: ON, YES
SSID 1–32 character string Identifies the service set id en ti fier o f th e
specific wireless network you are connected
to.
This parameter must match the system SSID.
NODENAME 1–16 character string (Optional)—Specifies a readable nam e for the
station.
NETADDRESS An y IEEE MA C address
except broadcast and
multicast
(Optional)—Allows for locally administered
MAC addresses by overriding the unique
MAC ID on the adapter.
NODE ADDRESS Same as NETADDRESS (keyword valid only
in NET.CFG file).
RXMODE NORMAL
UNICAST
NOMULTICAST
(Optional)—Determines what frames are
delivered to the driver from the adapter.
Normal means unicast, multicas t, and
broadcast frames are re ceived .
Default: NORMAL
DATARATE1 0–255 (Optional)—Specifies the rate at which the
adapter communicates with the access point to
which it associates.
Default: 1–11
This setting must m atc h the access point’s
setting.
DATARATE2 0–255