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Appendix A Network Configuration
The 11Mbps Wireless LAN products support the same network configuration options of the
legacy Ethernet LANs as defined by IEEE 802 standard committee.
The 11Mbps Wireless LAN products can be configured as:
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Ad-Hoc for departmental or SOHO LANs
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Infrastructure for enterprise LANs
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LAN-Interconnection for point-to-point link as a campus backbone.
A-1 Network Topology
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Ad-Hoc
Fig An Example of Ad-Hoc Wireless LAN
An Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers, each equipped with one wireless adapter,
connected as an independent wireless LAN. Computers in a specific Ad-Hoc wireless LAN
must be configured at the same radio channel.
Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is applicable at a departmental scale for a branch or SOHO
operation.
