IEEE 802.11 Operation Modes in Windows

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I was looking at the wlanapi.h in windows and I noticed that the WLAN adapter can be configured into one of the following operation modes using the WlanSetInterface method.

#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_UNKNOWN                0x00000000
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_STATION                0x00000001
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_AP                     0x00000002
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_EXTENSIBLE_STATION     0x00000004
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_EXTENSIBLE_AP          0x00000008 
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_WFD_DEVICE             0x00000010 
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_WFD_GROUP_OWNER        0x00000020  
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_WFD_CLIENT             0x00000040
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_MANUFACTURING          0x40000000
#define DOT11_OPERATION_MODE_NETWORK_MONITOR        0x80000000

Station, AP (Access Point), WFD (Wi-Fi Direct) and monitor modes are well-known and are talked about in the networking literature. What are these modes?

extensible station
extensible AP
manufacturing

and how they differ from station and AP modes respectively?

windows
802.11
asked on Stack Overflow Jun 28, 2018 by ManiAm

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