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DWS-1008 User's Manual
wildcard mask
A 32-bit quantity used with an IP address to determine which bits in the address to ignore in
a comparison with another IP address. When setting up security access control lists (ACLs),
you specify source and destination IP addresses and corresponding wildcard masks by which
the switch determines whether to forward or filter packets. The security ACL checks the bits in
IP addresses that correspond to any 0s (zeros) in the mask, but does not check the bits that
correspond to 1s (ones) in the mask.
wired authentication port
An Ethernet port that has 802.1X authentication enabled for access control.
Wired-Equivalent Privacy protocol
See WEP.
Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
See Wi-Fi Alliance.
wireless Internet service provider
See WISP.
wireless LAN
See WLAN.
WISP
Wireless Internet service provider. A company that provides public wireless LAN (WLAN)
services.
WLAN
Wireless LAN. A LAN to which mobile users (clients) can connect and communicate by means
of high-frequency radio waves rather than wires. WLANs are defined in the IEEE 802.11
standard.
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access. The Wi-Fi Alliance's version of the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
(TKIP) that also includes a message integrity code (MIC) known as Michael. Although WPA
provides greater wireless security than the Wired-Equivalent Privacy protocol (WEP), WPA
is not as secure as IEEE 802.11i, which includes both the RC4 encryption used in WEP and
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, but is not yet ratified by IEEE. See also
AES; RC4; TKIP.
WPA IE
A set of extra fields in a wireless frame that contain Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) information
for the access point or client. For example, a DWL-8220AP access point uses the WPA
IE in a beacon frame to advertise the cipher suites and authentication methods that the
DWL-8220AP access point supports for its encrypted SSID.
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