| 摘要 |
<p>A premises based wireless network having a multi-segment wired network and a plurality of wireless access points connected to the wired network. The wired network operates according to a wired network protocol which may be the Internet Protocol. Wireless terminals communicate with the wireless access points according to a wireless network protocol, inconsistent with the wired network protocol. Each of the wireless terminals has a wired network address corresponding to one of the wireless access points. As the wireless terminals roam throughout the premises, protocol tunnels route communications between wireless terminals, thereby preserving communications while roaming by allowing the wireless terminals to retain their wired network addresses during the ongoing communications. An address resolution packet proxy server presents flooding of the wireless network with address resolution packets. The address resolution packet proxy server may act as a full proxy for wireless terminals connected to a respective wireless access point thereby relieving the wireless terminal from responding to address resolution packet requests. An augmenting agent provides enhanced services within a wireless network device by enhancing operation of drivers and protocol operators. The augmenting agent may be either a shim or monitoring agent that monitors, communications between the protocol operator and the drivers. When required, the augmenting agent participates to alter operations to provide enhanced services. The enhanced services include encypherment/encryption, device authentication, global network configuration, diagnostics such as loop-back testing, signal strength feedback, wireless retry counts, network route tracing, network management, solving out-of-sequence packet race conditions and filtering and flooding restriction operation.</p> |
