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HAPTER

4—W

IRELESS

ETWORK

UNDAMENTALS

Wireless Network Configuration

AD-HOC MODE (PEER-TO-PEER WORKGROUP)

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard for

wireless LANs (WLANs), 802.11- offers two methods for configuring a wireless

network — ad-hoc and infrastructure. In an ad-hoc network, computers are

brought together as needed; thus, there is no structure or fixed points to the

network — each node can generally communicate with any other node. There is

no access point involved in this configuration. It enables you to quickly set up a

small wireless workgroup and allows workgroup members to exchange data or

share printers as supported by Microsoft Networking in the various Windows

operating systems. Some vendors also refer to ad-hoc networking as peer-to-

peer workgroup networking.

In this configuration, network packets are directly sent and received by the

intended transmitting and receiving stations. As long as the stations are within

range of one another, this is the easiest and least expensive way to set up a

wireless network.

To set up an ad-hoc workgroup operating with standard protocols, do the

following:

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Set all stations to connect in Ad-hoc mode (or Peer-to-Peer workgroup

mode).

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