Infrastructure Wireless Lan For Roaming Wireless Pcs - HP procurve 420 Getting Started Manual

Installing the Access Point 420
Sample Network Topologies

Infrastructure Wireless LAN for Roaming Wireless PCs

Desktop PC
Switch
Access Point 420
The Basic Service Set (BSS) defines the communications domain for each
access point and its associated wireless clients. The BSS ID is a 48-bit binary
number based on the access point's wireless MAC address, and is set automat-
ically and transparently as clients associate with the access point. The BSS ID
is used in frames sent between the access point and its clients to identify traffic
in the service area.
The BSS ID is only set by the access point, never by its clients. The clients
only need to set the Service Set Identifier (SSID) that identifies the service set
provided by one or more access points. The SSID can be manually configured
by the clients, can be detected in an access point's beacon, or can be obtained
by querying for the identity of the nearest access point. For clients that do not
need to roam, set the SSID for the wireless card to that used by the access
point to which you want to connect.
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Wireless Client
Wireless Client
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Access Point 420
<BSS1>
<ESS>
Seamless Roaming
for Wireless Clients
Wireless Client
<BSS2>