Chapter 4 Status Screens

 

Table 8 The Status Screen

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

WLAN1

This field displays the number of wireless clients currently

 

 

Associations

associated with the first wireless module. It supports up to 128

 

 

 

concurrent associations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WLAN2

This field displays the number of wireless clients currently

 

 

Associations

associated with the second wireless module. It supports up to

 

 

 

128 concurrent associations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interface Status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interface

This column displays each interface of the NWA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Status

This field indicates whether or not the NWA is using the interface.

 

 

 

For each interface, this field displays Up when the NWA is using

 

 

 

the interface and Down when the NWA is not using the interface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rate

For the LAN port this displays the port speed and duplex setting.

 

 

 

For the WLAN interface, it displays the downstream and

 

 

 

upstream transmission rate or N/A if the interface is not in use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSID Status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interface

This column displays each of the NWA’s wireless interfaces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSID

This field displays each of the SSIDs currently in use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BSSID

This field displays the MAC address of the wireless adaptor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Security

This field displays the type of wireless security used by each

 

 

 

SSID.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VLAN

This field displays the VLAN ID of each SSID in use, or Disabled if

 

 

 

the SSID does not use VLAN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

System Status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Show Statistics

Click this link to view port status and packet specific statistics.

 

 

 

See Section 4.2.1 on page 86.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Association List

Click this to see a list of wireless clients currently associated to

 

 

 

each of the NWA’s wireless modules. See Section 23.2 on page

 

 

 

280.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Channel Usage

Click this to see which wireless channels are currently in use in

 

 

 

the local area. See Section 23.3 on page 281.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logs

Click this to see a list of logs produced by the NWA. See Chapter

 

 

 

19 on page 239.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rogue AP List

Click this to see a list of unauthorized access points in the local

 

 

 

area. See Section 15.2.2 on page 196.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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