802.11 Wireless LAN Object Identifiers
The following table shows the 802.11 Wireless LAN object identifiers and a description of each.
| Programming element | Description |
|---|---|
| OID_802_11_ADD_WEP | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set an 802.11 wired equivalent privacy (WEP) key to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_AUTHENTICATION_MODE | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set its NIC's 802.11 authentication mode to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_BSSID | This object identifier (OID), when set, requests that a miniport driver assign a specified value to the media access control (MAC) address of the access point associated with the NIC. |
| OID_802_11_BSSID_LIST | This object identifier returns a list of all BSSIDs detected, including their attributes specified in the NDIS_REQUEST data structure. |
| OID_802_11_BSSID_LIST_SCAN | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver direct the 802.11 NIC to request a survey of BSSs. |
| OID_802_11_CONFIGURATION | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set the NIC's radio configuration parameters to specified values. |
| OID_802_11_DESIRED_RATES | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set its NIC's set of data transmission rates to the values specified in an array. |
| OID_802_11_DISASSOCIATE | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver command its NIC to disassociate from the current service set and turn off the radio. |
| OID_802_11_FRAGMENTATION_THRESHOLD | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set the NIC's packet fragmentation threshold to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_INFRASTRUCTURE_MODE | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set the 802.11 NIC's infrastructure mode to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_NETWORK_TYPE_IN_USE | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set type information about the physical layer network used by the 802.11 NIC to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_NETWORK_TYPES_SUPPORTED | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver return an array of all physical layer network subtypes that the 802.11 NIC and the driver support. |
| OID_802_11_NUMBER_OF_ANTENNAS | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver return the number of antennas on the NIC's radio. |
| OID_802_11_POWER_MODE | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set the power mode of the 802.11 NIC to the specified value. |
| OID_802_11_PRIVACY_FILTER | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set its NIC's 802.1x privacy filter mode to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_RELOAD_DEFAULTS | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver reload the available defaults of a specified type. |
| OID_802_11_REMOVE_WEP | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver remove the wired equivalent privacy (WEP) key at the specified key index. |
| OID_802_11_RSSI | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver return the received signal strength indication (RSSI) in response to a query or as a status indication event. |
| OID_802_11_RSSI_TRIGGER | This object identifier when set, requests that the miniport driver set the RSSI trigger value. This value determines when an RSSI status indication event will occur. |
| OID_802_11_RTS_THRESHOLD | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set the Request To Send (RTS) threshold to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_RX_ANTENNA_SELECTED | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set, to a specified value, the antenna number that identifies the currently selected receive (RX) antenna. |
| OID_802_11_SSID | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver assign a specified value to the NIC's service set identifier (SSID). |
| OID_802_11_STATISTICS | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver return the current statistics for the 802.11 interface. |
| OID_802_11_SUPPORTED_RATES | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver return its NIC's data rate set, which includes the data rates that the NIC's radio supports. |
| OID_802_11_TX_ANTENNA_SELECTED | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set, to a specified value, the antenna number that identifies the currently selected transmit (TX) antenna. |
| OID_802_11_TX_POWER_LEVEL | This object identifier, when set, requests that the miniport driver set the transmit power level of the 802.11 NIC to a specified value. |
| OID_802_11_WEP_STATUS | This object identifier requests that the miniport driver set its NIC's 802.11 WEP status to enabled or disabled. |
| OID_DOT11_AP_JOIN_REQUEST | This object identifier requests that the card synchronize with a BSS. |
| OID_DOT11_ATIM_WINDOW | This object identifier specifies the announcement traffic information message (ATIM) window size in TUs. |
| OID_DOT11_BEACON_PERIOD | This object identifier specifies the number of TU that a station uses for scheduling Beacon transmissions. |
| OID_DOT11_CCA_MODE_SUPPORTED | This is a bit-significant value, that represents all of the CCA modes supported by the PHY. |
| OID_DOT11_CCA_WATCHDOG_COUNT_MAX | This object identifier, together with OID_CCA_Watchdog_Timer_Max, determines when energy detected in the channel can be ignored. |
| OID_DOT11_CCA_WATCHDOG_COUNT_MIN | The minimum value that OID_CCA_Watchdog_Count can be set to. |
| OID_DOT11_CCA_WATCHDOG_TIMER_MAX | This object identifier, together with OID_CCA_Watchdog_Count_Max, determines when energy detected in the channel can be ignored. |
| OID_DOT11_CCA_WATCHDOG_TIMER_MIN | The minimum value that OID_CCA_Watchdog_Timer_Max can be set to. |
| OID_DOT11_CF_POLLABLE | This object identifier, when true, indicates that the station (STA) can respond to a CF-Poll with a data frame within a Short Inter-Frame Spacing (SIFS) time. |
| OID_DOT11_CFP_MAX_DURATION | The object identifier describes the maximum duration of the CFP in TU that may be generated by the PCF. |
| OID_DOT11_CFP_PERIOD | The object identifier describes the number of Delivery Traffic Indicator Message (DTIM) intervals between the start of CFPs. |
| OID_DOT11_CHANNEL_AGILITY_ENABLED | This object identifier indicates that the PHY channel agility functionality is enabled. |
| OID_DOT11_CHANNEL_AGILITY_PRESENT | This object identifier indicates that the PHY is capable of channel agility. |
| OID_DOT11_COUNTERS_ENTRY | This object identifier queries statistics from the NIC. |
| OID_DOT11_COUNTRY_STRING | This object identifier identifies the country where the NIC is operating. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_CCA_MODE | The current CCA method in operation. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_CHANNEL | The current operating frequency channel of the DSSS PHY. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_CHANNEL_NUMBER | The current channel number of the frequency output by the RF synthesizer. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_DWELL_TIME | The current time, in TU, that the transmitter operates on a single channel, as set by the MAC. Default is 19 TU. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_FREQUENCY | The number of the operating frequency channel of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) physical layer. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_INDEX | The index value that the PHY LME is using to determine the CurrentChannelNumber. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_OFFLOAD_CAPABILITY | This object identifier turns a NIC's offload capabilities on or off. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_OPERATION_MODE | This object identifier sets the NIC into station or access point (AP) mode. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_OPTIONAL_CAPABILITY | This object identifier turns on or turns off the operational capabilities enabled on the NIC. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_PACKET_FILTER | This object identifier specifies the packet types that a NIC can indicate up to the Native 802.11 layer. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_PATTERN | The pattern that the PHY LME is using to determine the hop sequence. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_PHY_TYPE | This object identifier is an 8-bit integer value that identifies the PHY type supported by the attached Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) and Physical Medium Dependent (PMD) sublayer. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_REG_DOMAIN | The regulatory domain that this instance of the PMD supports. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_RX_ANTENNA | This object identifier queries the antenna being used to receive, if OID_DOT11_DIVERSITY_SUPPORT indicates that diversity is not supported. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_SET | The set of patterns that the PHY LME is using to determine the hopping sequence |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_TX_ANTENNA | This object identifier queries the antenna being used to transmit. |
| OID_DOT11_CURRENT_TX_POWER_LEVEL | The TxPowerLevel N being used to transmit data. |
| OID_DOT11_DEFAULT_WEP_OFFLOAD | This object identifier passes the default key that is used to decrypt or encrypt packets. |
| OID_DOT11_DEFAULT_WEP_UPLOAD | This object identifier removes the default key that is used to decrypt or encrypt packets. |
| OID_DOT11_DIVERSITY_SELECTION_RX | When true, this object identifier indicates that the antenna represented by uAntennaListIndex can be used for receive diversity. |
| OID_DOT11_DIVERSITY_SUPPORT | This object identifier supports diversity. |
| OID_DOT11_DTIM_PERIOD | This object identifier specifies the number of beacon intervals that elapse between transmissions of Beacons frames containing a TIM element whose DTIM count field is zero. |
| OID_DOT11_ED_THRESHOLD | The Energy Detect Threshold that is being used by the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) physical layer. |
| OID_DOT11_EHCC_CAPABILITY_ENABLED | When this object identifier is true, it indicates that the STA is capable of operating using the HCC or EHCC algorithms to determine the hopping patterns. |
| OID_DOT11_EHCC_CAPABILITY_IMPLEMENTED | When this object identifier is true, it indicates that the STA is capable of generating the HCC or EHCC algorithms to determine the hopping patterns. |
| OID_DOT11_EHCC_NUMBER_OF_CHANNELS_FAMILY_INDEX | This object identifier indicates the value to be used as the maximum for the family index (a) in the HCC and EHCC algorithms. |
| OID_DOT11_EHCC_PRIME_RADIX | This object identifier indicates the value to be used as the prime radix (N) in the HCC and EHCC algorithms. |
| OID_DOT11_FRAGMENTATION_THRESHOLD | This object identifier specifies the current maximum size, in octets, of the MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) that may be delivered to the PHY. |
| OID_DOT11_FREQUENCY_BANDS_SUPPORTED | The capability of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) physical layer implementation to operate in the three U-NII bands. |
| OID_DOT11_HOP_ALGORITHM_ADOPTED | This object identifier indicates which algorithm will be used to generate the Hopping Patterns. |
| OID_DOT11_HOP_MODULUS | The number of channels for the hopping set. |
| OID_DOT11_HOP_OFFSET | This object identifier queries the next position in the hopping set. |
| OID_DOT11_HOP_TIME | The time, in microseconds, for the PMD to change from channel 2 to channel 80. |
| OID_DOT11_HOPPING_PATTERN | This object identifier queries the hopping pattern table used by FHS file. |
| OID_DOT11_HR_CCA_MODE_SUPPORTED | This object identifier is a bit-significant value that represents all of the CCA modes supported by the PHY. |
| OID_DOT11_JOIN_REQUEST | This object identifier requests that the card synchronize with a Basic Service Set (BSS). |
| OID_DOT11_LONG_RETRY_LIMIT | This object identifier indicates the maximum number of transmission attempts of a frame, the length of which are greater than OID_DOT11_RTS_THRESHOLD that are made before a failure condition is indicated. |
| OID_DOT11_MAC_ADDRESS | This object identifier queries the unique MAC address assigned to the STA. |
| OID_DOT11_MAX_DWELL_TIME | The maximum time, in TU, that the transmitter is permitted to operate on a single channel. |
| OID_DOT11_MAX_RECEIVE_LIFETIME | This object identifier is the elapsed time, in TU, after the initial reception of a fragmented MMPDU or MSDU, after which further attempts to reassemble the MMPDU or MSDU is terminated. |
| OID_DOT11_MAX_TRANSMIT_MSDU_LIFETIME | The Max_Transmit_MSDU_Lifetime is the elapsed time, in TU, after the initial transmission of an MSDU, after which further attempts to transmit the MSDU is terminated. |
| OID_DOT11_MEDIUM_OCCUPANCY_LIMIT | This object identifier indicates the maximum amount of time, in TU, that a point coordinator can control a wireless medium without allowing at least one instance of DCF access to the medium. |
| OID_DOT11_MPDU_MAX_LENGTH | This object identifier queries the maximum size of the MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU). |
| OID_DOT11_MULTI_DOMAIN_CAPABILITY | This object identifier is an auxiliary variable used to identify instances of the columnar objects in the Multi-Domain Capability Table. |
| OID_DOT11_MULTI_DOMAIN_CAPABILITY_ENABLED | This object identifier, when TRUE, indicates that the ability of the NIC to operate in multiple regulatory domains is enabled. |
| OID_DOT11_MULTI_DOMAIN_CAPABILITY_IMPLEMENTED | This object identifier, when TRUE, indicates that the NIC implementation is capable of supporting multiple regulatory domains. |
| OID_DOT11_NIC_POWER_STATE | This object identifier sets the NIC power state. When set to TRUE, the power is turned on. |
| OID_DOT11_NIC_SPECIFIC_EXTENSION | This object identifier represents NIC–specific extension information. |
| OID_DOT11_NUMBER_OF_HOPPING_SETS | The number of sets field that indicates the total number of sets within the hopping patterns. |
| OID_DOT11_OFFLOAD_CAPABILITY | This object identifier queries a NIC's offload capability. |
| OID_DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_CAPABILITY | This object identifier queries the capability of operation mode. |
| OID_DOT11_OPERATIONAL_RATE_SET | This object identifier specifies the set of data rates at which the station can transmit data. |
| OID_DOT11_OPTIONAL_CAPABILITY | This object identifier queries the optional capability supported by the NIC. |
| OID_DOT11_PBCC_OPTION_IMPLEMENTED | This object identifier, when true, indicates that the Packet Binary Convolutional Code (PBCC) modulation option as defined in subclause 18.4.6.6 is implemented. |
| OID_DOT11_POWER_MGMT_MODE | This object identifier specifies the power management mode of the STA. |
| OID_DOT11_RANDOM_TABLE_FLAG | When this object identifier is true, it indicates that a Random Table is present. |
| OID_DOT11_REG_DOMAINS_SUPPORT_VALUE | There are different operational requirements that depend on the regulatory domain. |
| OID_DOT11_RESET_REQUEST | This object identifier resets the NIC. |
| OID_DOT11_RF_USAGE | The object identifier represents a NIC's knowledge of how busy a radio frequency (RF) spectrum is, as a percentage. |
| OID_DOT11_RSSI_RANGE | This object identifier represents the NIC's RSSI range for the specified PHY type across all data rates for that PHY. |
| OID_DOT11_RTS_THRESHOLD | This object identifier indicates the number of octets in a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU), below which an RTS/CTS handshake is not performed. |
| OID_DOT11_SCAN_REQUEST | This object identifier requests a survey of potential Basic Service Sets (BSS) that the station may later try to join. |
| OID_DOT11_SHORT_PREAMBLE_OPTION_IMPLEMENTED | This object identifier, when true, indicates that the short preamble option as defined in subclause 18.2.2.2 is implemented. |
| OID_DOT11_SHORT_RETRY_LIMIT | This object identifier indicates the maximum number of transmission attempts of a frame, the length of which are less than or equal to OID_DOT11_RTS_THRESHOLD, that are made before a failure condition is indicated. |
| OID_DOT11_START_REQUEST | This object identifier requests that the card start a BSS. |
| OID_DOT11_STATION_ID | The object identifier allows a manager to identify a station for its own purposes while keeping the true MAC address independent. |
| OID_DOT11_SUPPORTED_DATA_RATES_VALUE | The Transmit bit rates that are supported by the PLCP and PMD, represented by a count from X'02-X'7f, that correspond to data rates in increments of 500Kb/s from 1 Mb/s to 63.5 Mb/s subject to limitations of each individual PHY. |
| OID_DOT11_SUPPORTED_PHY_TYPES | This is an 8-bit integer value that identifies the PHY type supported by the attached PLCP and PMD. |
| OID_DOT11_SUPPORTED_POWER_LEVELS | This object identifier queries the number of power levels supported by the PMD. |
| OID_DOT11_SUPPORTED_RX_ANTENNA | When true, this object identifier indicates that the antenna represented by the uAntennaListIndex can be used as a receive antenna. |
| OID_DOT11_SUPPORTED_TX_ANTENNA | When true, this object identifier indicates that the antenna represented by uAntennaListIndex can be used as a transmit antenna. |
| OID_DOT11_TEMP_TYPE | This object identifier describes the current PHY's operating temperature range capability. |
| OID_DOT11_TI_THRESHOLD | The threshold value being used to detect a busy medium (frequency).
CCA reports a busy medium when it detects the Received Signal Strength Intensity (RSSI) above this threshold. |
| OID_DOT11_UPDATE_IE | This object identifier requests that the underlying card add or update one or more IEs for an already started BSS. |
| OID_DOT11_WEP_ICV_ERROR_COUNT | This counter increments when the following conditions are true:
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| OID_DOT11_WEP_OFFLOAD | This object identifier passes a per-station key used for encrypting or decrypting packets. |
| OID_DOT11_WEP_UPLOAD | This object identifier removes the per-station key for the NIC. |
| OID_DOT11_WPA_TSC | This object identifier queries the values for current Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) sequence counters. |
See Also
Network Driver Object Identifiers
Last updated on Tuesday, May 18, 2004
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