Glossary - Proxim ORiNOCO AP-800 Software Management Manual

Glossary

Access point
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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
ARP
Authentication
Authentication Server "Shared
Secret"
Basic Service Set (BSS)
Boolean Operators
BPDU Packets
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ORiNOCO 802.11n Access Points - Software Management Guide
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A wireless network transceiver or "base station" hub, often used to
connect a local area network to one or more wireless devices. An access
point (also called AP) can provide a communication link to a wired local
area network also.
A 'client' setting for a wireless local area network that allows devices
connected to the network to communicate with one another directly,
independent of an access point or router.
It is a symmetric-key encryption standard, containing three block ciphers
AES-128, AES-192, AES-256. Each of these ciphers has a 128-bit block
size, with key sizes of 128, 192 and 256 bits, respectively.
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is intended to find the MAC
address belonging to an IP address.
The process the unit uses to decide whether a wireless client is allowed to
register to an access point network or not. IEEE 802.11 specifies two forms
of authentication: open system and shared key; WORP only supports
shared key because of security constraints.
This is a kind of password shared between the unit and the RADIUS
authentication server. This password is used to encrypt important data
exchanged between the unit and the RADIUS server.
B
A wireless network with atleast one Access Point (either connected to a
wired network infrastructure or a wireless backhaul) and a set of wireless
devices forms a Basic Service Set (BSS).
Boolean operators define the relationships between words or groups of
words.
– AND: Narrow search and retrieve records containing all of the words
it separates.
– OR: Broaden search and retrieve records containing any of the
words it separates. The | can be used instead of 'or' (e.g., 'mouse |
mice | rat' is equivalent to 'mouse or mice or rat').
: Depending on how the Boolean Operator AND is used with the
Keyword Field (KW), results may be slightly different.
A spanning tree protocol (STP) message unit that describes the attributes
of a switch port such as its MAC address, priority and cost to reach. BPDUs
enable switches that participate in a spanning tree protocol to gather
information about each other.
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