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Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Client Adapters Installation and Configuration Guide for MS-DOS
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Chapter 3 Installing the Software
Driver Keywords and Settings
Infrastructure Parameters
Additional system performance adjustments can be made with the following parameters.
STATIONARY ON, OFF,
YES, NO
(Optional)—indicates whether or not the
station is mobile.
Default: OFF
PROBEDELAY 0–0xFFFF (Optional)—Indicates how long to wait on a
frequency before sending a probe request.
Default: 3 Kusec
OFFSCANINTERVAL 0–0xFFFF (Optional)—Determines how often to attempt
to use the off-line scanning method to search
for new access points.
Default: 0 (which disables off-line scanning)
OFFSCANDURATION 0–0xFFFF (Optional)—Determines how long to use the
off-line scanning method during each attempt.
Default: 0 (disables off-line scanning)
Table 3-8 Scanning Variables (continued)
Variable Value Description
Table 3-9 Infrastructure Parameters
Parameter Value Description
SSID 1 to 32 character string Establishes the adapter’s service set identifier.
This parameter must match the SSID of the
system for proper infrastructure operation.
Default: tsunami
BEACONLOSTTIME 0–0xFFFF (Optional)—Determines the interval of
consecutively missed beacons which will
cause a rescan.
Default: 500 Kusec
REFRESHINTERVAL 0–0xFFFF (Optional)—Determines the amount of time
in seconds between refresh packets to the
access point.
Use 0xFFFF to disable
Default: 10,000 Kusec (10 sec)
SPECIFIEDAP Any IEEE MAC address
except broadcast and
multicast
(Optional)—Forces association to the
specified access point.
SPECIFIEDAP2 Any IEEE MAC address
except broadcast and
multicast
(Optional)—Forces association to one of the
specified access points.