718 Rogue detection and counter measures
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Flood attacks

A flood attack is a type of Denial of Service attack. During a flood attack, a rogue wireless device attempts to overwhelm
the resources of other wireless devices by continuously injecting management frames into the air. For example, a rogue
client can repeatedly send association requests to try to overwhelm APs that receive the requests.
The threshold for triggering a flood message is 100 frames of the same type from the same MAC address, within a
one-second period. If WSS Software detects more than 100 of the same type of wireless frame within one second, WSS
Software generates a log message. The message indicates the frame type, the MAC address of the sender, the listener
(AP and radio), channel number, and RSSI.