Distribution Services
Provide services necessary to allow mobile stations to roam freely within an ESS and allow an IEEE 802.11 WLAN to connect with the wired LAN infrastructure. A thin layer between MAC and LLC sublayer that are invoked to determine how to forward frames within the IEEE 802.11 WLAN and also how to deliver frames from the IEEE 802.11 WLAN to network destinations outside of the WLAN.
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