Cisco Systems 1105 Network Card User Manual


 
GL-1
User Guide for the CiscoWorks 1105 Wireless LAN Solution Engine
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GLOSSARY
A
AAA
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. The WLSE monitors LEAP,
EAP-MD5 and RADIUS AAA services provided by AAA servers running
CiscoSecure ACS Server software.
See also EAP-MD5 server, LEAP server, and RADIUS.
access point
Access points are wireless LAN transceivers that serve as the center point of a
standalone wireless network or as the connection point between wireless and
wired networks. In large installations, wireless users within radio range of an
access point can roam throughout a facility while maintaining seamless,
uninterrupted access to the network.
ANI
Asynchronous Network Interface. A mediation layer between the network
devices and client applications. ANI provides discovery, inventory, and
topological computations of networks and their devices
B
BDPU
Bridge Protocol Data Unit. See STP.
BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol. The protocol used by a network node to determine the IP
address of its Ethernet interfaces to affect network booting.
bridge
See wireless bridge.