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GRE Wireless LAN
GINA Access Point/Bridge User Guide
What is Roaming?
Roaming is the ability of a portable computer user to communicate continuously while moving
freely throughout an area greater than that covered by a single Wireless Network Wireless
Bridge. Before using the roaming function,
What is BSS ID?
A specific Ad hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). Computers in a BSS must be
configured with the same BSS ID.
What is ESS ID?
An Infrastructure configuration could also support roaming capability for mobile workers. More
than one BSS can be configured as an Extended Service Set (ESS). Users within an ESS could
Roam freely between BSSs while served as a continuous connection to the network wireless
stations and Wireless Network Wireless Bridges within an ESS must be configured with the same
ESS ID and the same radio channel.
What is WEP?
WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy, a data privacy mechanism based on a 64 / 128 bit shared key
algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.11 standard.
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