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11 DETECTING AND COMBATTING

ROGUE DEVICES

	This chapter discusses how to manage rogue devices that try to use your
	wireless network. Information includes an overview of detection features,
	enabling countermeasures, using the Rogue Detection tab, displaying a
	rogue’s geographical location, ignoring friendly third-party devices, and
	converting a rogue into a third party AP.
Overview	MAP radios automatically scan the RF spectrum for other devices
	transmitting in the same spectrum. The RF scans discover third-party
	transmitters in addition to other 3Com radios. MSS considers the
	third-party transmitters to be devices of interest, which are potential
	rogues.
	You can display information about the devices of interest. To identify
	friendly devices, such as third-party access points in your network or
	neighbor’s network, you can add them to the known devices list. You
	also can enable countermeasures to prevent clients from using the
	devices that truly are rogues. With 3WXM, you also can display the
	physical location of a rogue device.
	RF detection detects all the IEEE 802.11 devices in a Mobility Domain and
	can single out the unauthorized rogue access points.
Rogue Access Points	A rogue access point is an access point that is not authorized to operate
and Users	in a network. Rogue access points and their clients undermine the
	security of an enterprise network by potentially allowing unchallenged
	access to the network by any wireless user or client in the physical vicinity.
	Rogue access points and users can also interfere with the operation of
	your enterprise network.