User's Manual

CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY
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Network Status Monitor gives an adapter view of
the wireless LAN communication. Accordingly, the title
text in the Network Status Monitor window is rather
cryptic and it refers to the name used internally by
Windows Embedded CE for the instance of the wireless
LAN adapter driver. The Network Status Monitor presents three property pages: IP
Information, IPv6 Information, and Wireless Information.
IP Information Pages
The IP and the IPv6 Information pages
give current status of the IP address
information assigned to the wireless LAN
interface. The pages have the same function
as the Network Status Monitor taskbar icons,
but the information is available in dotted-
decimal notation format. If you assign a static
IPv4 address to the WLAN interface the IP
address will be shown on the IP Information
page as your PL3000 has gained full access
to wireless LAN network. On the other hand, if
you select the DHCP option, the pages show
the IP address information once the device
has received that information from the
network after the completion of WLAN
authentication and association.
In a sense, the IP and IPv6 Information tabs are mutually exclusive because
the IP networking is typically based on either the IPv4 or IPv6. So the IPv6
Information page is not very informative in the case that the IP networking uses
IPv4 addressing scheme.
Note! The assigned IP-address to the WLAN interface may not always be
valid in the networking context. In particular, if DHCP address assigning
fails the WZC may assign an IPv4 address with the 169.254/16 prefix to
the WLAN interface on your PL3000. The IPv4 address with the above-
mentioned prefix is valid for link-local communication only. (The link-local
IP-address is used for the communication across ad-hoc links, for further
information see IETF RFC3927)
Introduction to
Network Status
Monitor