D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual
location policy rule - A rule in the location policy on a DWS-1008 switch that grants or denies a
set of network access rights based on one or more criteria. Location policy rules use a username
or VLAN membership to determine whether to override—or supply—authorization attributes during
authentication and to redirect traffic. Location policy rules are processed in the order in which they
appear in the location policy. See also location policy.
MAC - (1) Media access control. See MAC address. (2) Message authentication code. A keyed hash
used to verify message integrity. In a keyed hash, the key and the message are inputs to the hash
algorithm. See also MIC.
MAC address - Media access control address. A 6-byte hexadecimal address that a manufacturer
assigns to the Ethernet controller for a port. Higher-layer protocols use the MAC address at the MAC
sublayer of the Data Link layer (Layer 2) to access the physical media. The MAC function determines
the use of network capacity and the stations that are allowed to use the medium for transmission.
MAC address glob - A D-Link convention for matching media access control (MAC) addresses or sets
of MAC addresses by means of known characters plus a “wildcard” asterisk (*) character that stands for
from 1 byte to 5 bytes of the address. See also user glob; VLAN glob.
MAC protocol data unit - See MPDU.
MAC service data unit - See MSDU.
master secret - A code derived from the pre-master secret. A master secret is used to encrypt Transport
Layer Security (TLS) authentication exchanges and also to derive a pairwise master key (PMK). See
also PMK; pre-master secret.
maximum transmission unit - See MTU.
MD5 - Message-digest algorithm 5. A one-way hashing algorithm used in many authentication algorithms
and also to derive cryptographic keys in many algorithms. MD5 takes a message of an arbitrary length
and creates a 128-bit message digest.
media access control address - See MAC address.
message authentication code - See MAC.
message-digest algorithm 5 - See MD5.
message integrity code - See MIC.
MIC - Message integrity code. The IEEE term for a message authentication code (MAC). See MAC.
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol - See MS-CHAP-V2.
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