
APPENDIX A: Glossary
| Access Point: | An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and | 
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 | wireless networks. | 
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| An independent wireless LAN network formed by a group of | 
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 | computers, each with a network adapter. | 
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| AP Client: | One of the additional AP operating modes offered by a 54Mbps | 
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 | Access Point, which allows the Access Point to act as an Ethernet- | |
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 | a wireless ESS network through it. | 
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| ASCII: | American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII, is one | |
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 | of the two formats that you can use for entering the values for WEP | |
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 | key. It represents English letters as numbers from 0 to 127. | 
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| Authentication Type: | Indication of an authentication algorithm which can be supported by | |
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 | the Access Point. | 
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 | Open System: Open System authentication is the simplest of | 
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 | the available authentication algorithms. Essentially it is a null | 
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 | authentication algorithm. Any station that requests authentication | 
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 | with this algorithm may become authenticated if 802.11 | 
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 | Authentication Type at the recipient station is set to Open System | |
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 | authentication. | 
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| NP644 IEEE 802.11g Wireless Network USB Adaptor | 27 | |
| YML787 Rev1 | 
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