APPENDIX A: Glossary

Access Point:

An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and

 

 

wireless networks.

 

Ad-Hoc:

An independent wireless LAN network formed by a group of

 

 

computers, each with a network adapter.

 

AP Client:

One of the additional AP operating modes offered by a 54Mbps

 

 

Access Point, which allows the Access Point to act as an Ethernet-

 

to-Wireless Bridge, thus a LAN or a single computer station can join

 

a wireless ESS network through it.

 

ASCII:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII, is one

 

of the two formats that you can use for entering the values for WEP

 

key. It represents English letters as numbers from 0 to 127.

 

Authentication Type:

Indication of an authentication algorithm which can be supported by

 

the Access Point.

 

 

Open System: Open System authentication is the simplest of

 

 

the available authentication algorithms. Essentially it is a null

 

 

authentication algorithm. Any station that requests authentication

 

 

with this algorithm may become authenticated if 802.11

 

 

Authentication Type at the recipient station is set to Open System

 

authentication.

 

 

 

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