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station - Any device with a media access control (MAC) address and a Physical layer (PHY) interface to the wireless medium that comply with the standards for all IEEE 802 networks. Wireless clients and DWL-8220AP access points are stations in a D-Link Mobility System. STP - Spanning Tree Protocol. A link management protocol, defined in the IEEE 802.1D standard, that provides path redundancy while preventing undesirable loops in a network. STP is also known as Spanning Tree Bridge Protocol. supplicant - A client that is attempting to access a network. syslog server - A remote repository for log messages. Mobility System Software (MSS) supports up to four syslog servers on virtual LANs (VLANs) whose locations are configurable. MSS log protocol complies with RFC 3164. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol - See TKIP. TKIP - Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. A wireless encryption protocol that fixes the known problems in the Wired-Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol for existing IEEE 802.11 products. Like WEP, TKIP uses RC4 ciphering, but adds functions such as a 128-bit encryption key, a 48-bit initialization vector, a new message integrity code (MIC), and initialization vector (IV) sequencing rules to provide better protection. See also 802.11i; CCMP. TLS Transport Layer Security protocol. An authentication and encryption protocol that is the successor to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol for private transmission over the Internet. Defined in RFC 2246, TLS provides mutual authentication with nonrepudiation, encryption, algorithm negotiation, secure key derivation, and message integrity checking. TLS has been adapted for use in wireless LANs (WLANs) and is used widely in IEEE 802.1X authentication. See also EAP-TLS; PEAP; TTLS. TLV - Type, length, and value. A methodology for coding parameters within a frame. Type indicates a parameter's type, length indicates the length of its value, and value indicates the parameter's value. Transport Layer Security protocol - See TLS. TTLS - Tunneled Transport Layer Security. An Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method developed by Funk Software, Inc., and Certicom for 802.1X authentication. TTLS uses a combination of certificates and password challenge and response for authentication. The entire EAP subprotocol exchange of attribute-value pairs takes place inside an encrypted transport layer security (TLS) tunnel. TTLS supports authentication methods defined by EAP, as well as the older Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP), Password Authentication Protocol (PAP), Microsoft CHAP (MS-CHAP), and MS-CHAPV2. Compare EAP-TLS; PEAP. Tunneled Transport Layer Security subprotocol - See TTLS. type, length, and value - See TLV. U-NII - Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure. Three unlicensed frequency bands of 100 MHz each in the 5 GHz band, designated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide high-speed wireless networking. The three frequency bands-5.15 GHz through 5.25 GHz (for indoor use only), 5.25 GHz through 5.35 GHz, and 5.725 GHz through 5.825 GHz-were allocated in 1997. D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual 471