Basic System Parameters - Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Client Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 3 Installing the Software
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The following tables contain keywords and parameter settings common to both the NDIS2
PROTOCOL.INI, ODI NET.CFG, and the PKT CSCPKT.INI configuration files.

Basic System Parameters

Basic system operation can be adjusted with the following parameters.
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Parameter (Keyword)
INFRASTRUCTURE
SSID
NODENAME
NETADDRESS
NODE ADDRESS
RXMODE
DATARATE1
DATARATE2
OL-1744-02
Active scanning with 3-Kusec energy detect time and 20-Kusec probe response wait timeout.
Rescan if 8 beacons are consecutively missed.
Send an access point keep-alive message every 10 seconds.
General Network Parameters
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Value Description
ON, YES (Optional)—Specifies whether system
OFF, NO operation uses an infrastructure or
peer-to-peer/ad hoc network.
Default: ON, YES
1–32 character string Identifies the service set identifier of the
specific wireless network you are connected
to.
This parameter must match the system SSID.
1–16 character string (Optional)—Specifies a readable name for the
station.
Any IEEE MAC address (Optional)—Allows for locally administered
except broadcast and MAC addresses by overriding the unique
multicast MAC ID on the adapter.
Same as NETADDRESS (keyword valid only
in NET.CFG file).
NORMAL (Optional)—Determines what frames are
UNICAST delivered to the driver from the adapter.
NOMULTICAST Normal means unicast, multicast, and
broadcast frames are received.
Default: NORMAL
0–255 (Optional)—Specifies the rate at which the
adapter communicates with the access point to
0–255
which it associates.
Default: 1–11
This setting must match the access point's
setting.
Driver Keywords and Settings
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