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MON Profile

13.1 Overview

This screen allows you to set up monitor mode configurations that allow your connected APs to scan for other wireless devices in the vicinity. Once detected, you can use the MON Mode screen (Chapter 9 on page 111) to classify them as either rogue or friendly and then manage them accordingly.

13.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter

The MON Profile screen (Section 13.2 on page 166) creates preset monitor mode configurations that can be used by the APs.

13.1.2 What You Need To Know

The following terms and concepts may help as you read this chapter.

Active Scan

An active scan is performed when an 802.11-compatible wireless monitoring device is explicitly triggered to scan a specified channel or number of channels for other wireless devices broadcasting on the 802.11 frequencies by sending probe request frames.

Passive Scan

A passive scan is performed when an 802.11-compatible monitoring device is set to periodically listen to a specified channel or number of channels for other wireless devices broadcasting on the 802.11 frequencies.

 

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