Access Point
Ver1.1
User’s Manual
30/08/2001
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RTS Threshold: This is the option for the RTS Threshold activation.
Authentication Type:
Select Open System, Shared Key, or Both
Open System:
With this setting any station in the WLAN can associate with an
Access Point and receive and transmitted data (null authentication).
Shared Key:
With this setting only stations using a shared key encryption identified
by the Access Point are allowed to associate with it.
Both:
with this setting stations communicate with the Access Point either with or
without data encryption.
Preamble Type (Short, Long).
Rate: Select the basic rates to be used among the following options 1 - 2 (Mbps), 1 - 2- 5.5 - 11 (Mbps).
Auto Rate Fall Back: When this is enabled the transmission rate is defined by the past transmission status.
If you press the
Advanced
button , there are the following three opera-tional
modes available.
Access Point:
This mode provides access for wireless stations to wired LANs and
from wired LANs to wireless stations. Furthermore, wireless stations within the
range of the Access Point device may communicate with each other via the Access
Point.
Acess Point Client:
This mode allows the connection of one or more remote LANs
with a central LAN, creating thus an extended single virtual LAN. In this way, any station of the Remote
LAN can successfully communicate with any station of the central LAN, as if all of them belonged to the
same physical LAN. Wireless Stations can’t associated with Access Point Clients. The Access Point
conducts the designated traffic to the appropriate wired or wireless station.
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Preferred BSS:
It is enabled only if you select the Access Point Client option. BSS
corresponds to the MAC Address of the desired AP.
Wireless Bridge:
This mode allows two types of connections.
a. Point to Point: The Wireless Bridge can communicate with a specific Remote
MAC Address.
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Remote MAC Address:
It is enabled only if you select Point to Point. It corresponds
to the MAC Address of the Wireless Bridge of the Remote LAN.
b. Point to Multipoint: The Wireless bridge can communicate with any Wireless
Bridge available in the same channel. When Authorization Algorithm (see the next
menu - Authorized MAC Address), is enabled, the Wireless Bridge can communicate with any
Wireless Bridge whose MAC Addresses exists in the Authorization Table.
