Chapter 2: Network Configuration and

Planning

Wireless LAN Basic

The WLANs supports legacy Ethernet LAN network configuration options as defined by the IEEE 802.11b standards committee.

The WLAN Card can be configured as:

Ad-Hoc for departmental or SOHO LANs.

Infrastructure for enterprise LANs.

LAN-Interconnection for point-to-point link as campus backbone.

Network Topology

Desktop with USB WLAN Adapter

Notebook with PCMCIA WLAN Card

Notebook with PCMCIA WLAN Card

Fig 2-1 Ad-Hoc Wireless LAN

An Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers, each equipped with one WLAN adapter, connected as an independent wireless LAN. Computers in a specific Ad-Hoc wireless LAN must be configured to share the same radio channel.(Fig 2-1)

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