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The
‘
Advanced
’
window offers Firewall and Internet Connection Sharing functions.
Depends on your networking environment, you can select below functions.
Appendix A Glossary
Access Point
- An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks together.
Ad-Hoc
- Ad-Hoc is a peer- to-peer wireless network without Access Point. A group of wireless clients
consistent an independent wireless LAN.
Backbone
- The core infrastructure of a network, the portion of the network that transports information from one
central location to another central location. The information is then off-loaded onto a local system.
BSS
- Stands for
“
Basic Service Set.
”
An Access Point associated with several wireless stations.
ESS
- Stands for
“
Extended Service Set.
”
More than one BSS can be configured as an Extended Service Set.
An ESS is basically a roaming domain.
Ethernet
- A popular local area data communications network, originally developed by Xerox Corp., which
accepts transmission from computers and terminals. Ethernet operates on 10/100 Mbps transmission rate over
shielded coaxial cable or over shielded twisted pair telephone wire.
Infrastructure
- An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration.
Roaming
- A function that allows one to travel with a mobile end system (wireless LAN mobile station, for
example) through the territory of a domain (an ESS, for example) while continuously connecting to the
infrastructure.
