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The associated stations are displayed along with information about packet traffic transmitted and received for each station.
Note: The Authenticated and Associated Status shows only the underlying IEEE 802.11 authentication/association, which will be present in all Security modes. It does not refer to or show IEEE 802.1x authentication/association. Some points to keep in mind with regard to this are:
∙If the AP is running in Unencrypted ("Plain-text") mode or Static WEP mode, the authentication and association status of clients showing on the Client Associations tab will be in line with what is expected; that is, if a client shows as authenticated to the AP, it will be. (This is because Static WEP uses only IEEE 802.11 authentication.)
∙If the AP is running in IEEE 802.1x mode, however, it is possible for a client association to show on this tab as authenticated (via the IEEE 802.11 security) but actually not be authenticated to the AP via the second layer of IEEE 802.1x security .
Link Integrity Monitoring
The AT-TQ2403 Management Software provides link integrity monitoring to continually verify its connection to each associated client (even when there is no data exchange occurring). To do this, the AP sends data packets to clients every few seconds when no other traffic is passing. This allows the access point to detect when a client goes out of range, even during periods when no normal traffic is exchanged. The client connection drops off the list of associated clients within 300 seconds of a client disappearing, even if they do not disassociate (but went out of range).
Neighboring Access Points
The status page of Neighboring Access Points provides real-time statistics for all access points within range of the access point on which you are viewing the Administration Web pages.
To view information about other access points on the wireless network, navigate to Status > Neighboring Access Points.
Figure 37: Neighboring Access Points Page
