Service Sets
You can about actualize two types of wireless networks with active networks:
Basic account set (BSS)
Extended account set (ESS)
Both types of networks ascertain what we alarm a
service set ID
(SSID) that’s acclimated to advertise
your wireless arrangement so hosts can affix to the AP. And you can accept assorted SSIDs configured
on an admission point for aegis reasons. For example, you can baptize that one SSID
is accessible admission for a accessible hot spot, while addition SSID can use WEP or WPA2 for the employees
who assignment at this accessible hot spot. The SSID name is advertisement out the AP by absence so the
clients can acquisition the AP and affix to the wireless network, and of advance you can about-face this
feature off for aegis reasons.