Intermec 6710 manual Radio Ports

SECTION 2 " Features and Functional Overview

Filtering occurs regardless of whether the destination address is in the forwarding database. Using filters can improve the performance of the access point and prevent undesired frames from being forwarded to wireless stations attached to the access point.

Flooding decisions are made after frames have been received on a port and filtered. Flooding settings determine how the access point forwards frames to destination addresses not in the forwarding database.

Radio Ports

Each of the two radio ports in the access point are a connection into a LAN segment consisting of all wireless stations and access points that use the same wireless technology, are within wireless communications range of the access point, and are configured to communicate together.

The two PC card slots are intended for wireless NICs and are designated as NIC1 and NIC2. Internally, they are configured as Port 3 and Port 2, respectively. The following wireless options are currently supported:

"WLIF (2.4 GHz).

"900 MHz.

"450 MHz S-UHF.

The different media options provide alternative coverage and throughput tradeoffs. Radio media options are described in more detail in Appendixes B, C, and D.

The access point also supports combinations of two adapters for operation in mixed media systems; or, for WLIF radios, a wireless access point capability. The following dual radio configurations are supported:

"WLIF and 900 MHz.

"WLIF and S-UHF.

"WLIF and WLIF (limited to Master/Slave configuration for wireless access points).

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