Fortress Technologies BreadCrumb Wireless Network - Manual (Page 61)

DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol; the means by which some networking devices obtain an
address automatically from a network
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
ESSID
Extended Service Set Identifier; a set of Access Points or BreadCrumbs that appear as a single
network. Also referred to as a "network name."
LAN
Local Area Network
MAC
Media Access Control
MAC Address
A unique identifier (usually of the form 11:22:33:44:55:66) associated with an individual network
interface.
NAT
Network Address Translation
peer
A BreadCrumb device that is meshed with another BreadCrumb device.
pending peer
A BreadCrumb device that is meshed with another BreadCrumb device, but has not yet
communicated with BCAdmin itself.
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