Wireless local area networks (WLANs), based on the IEEE 802.11 standard, are becoming increasingly pervasive throughout all sectors of society and industry. Consequently, as more people put up 802.11-based networks, they rely on the vendors and/or system integrators of the hardware purchased to either do the WLAN installation/ugrade or provide documentation or resources for the roll-out. While the number of hardware vendors has increased, resulting in a wide variety of platforms and system integ