User's Guide

Glossary
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Glossary
Client access
interface
An interface on the EL-500 used by a client device, such as an
802.11-enabled laptop, to connect to the EL-500. The client access
interfaces are the virtual APs wlan1 – wlan4.
Client device A device that is connected to one of the EL-500’s client access
interfaces, e.g. a laptop
Client address
scheme
The method used to assign address spaces to client address
interfaces. The two supported client address schemes are implicit and
explicit.
Operating mode The mode that sets the method for how packets forwarding is done by
the EL-500. The two supported operating modes are “bridge” and
“router”, with the former using layer 2-based traffic forwarding
mechanisms and the latter using layer 3-based mechanisms.