User`s guide

9 - 2 Aironet Wireless Client
Overview
Client nodes and repeaters request to be associated with a parent so the
parent will forward data frames. This exchange of radio packets passes
back and forth information such as a node’s address, device, association
type, and ASCII name. This information is entered into the Aironet
Wireless Client’s association table along with the address of the parent.
Each Aironet Wireless Client maintains entries in its table for all nodes
associated to it and all nodes associated to any repeater serving it. There
may be up to 2048 entries in the table.
An Aironet Wireless Client will accept an association from any node
that requests it. The operator may set up entries in the association table
to control which nodes are allowed to associate. See “Association Moni-
tor Menu (Monitor)”.
Using the information in the association table, the Aironet Wireless Cli-
ent can perform a variety of traffic-control functions in moving packets
to their proper destination on the infrastructure. When packets are
received from the Ethernet or Serial or radio network, the Aironet Wire-
less Client will look in its table for the packet’s destination address and
do one of the following:
n If the entry shows the radio node is associated to this unit, the
packet can be forwarded directly.
n If the entry indicates that the entry is associated to a repeater serv-
ing this unit, the packet is forwarded to the repeater.
n If the address is not found, a root unit will forward the packet to the
wired LAN, while a repeater will forward the packet to its own par-
ent.
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