Specifications

Chapter 1 Overview
Management Options
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• If authentication is successful, all management traffic between the client and
access point is encrypted using the session key.
Management Options
You can use the access point management system through the following
interfaces:
• A web-browser interface
• A command-line interface (CLI), Telnet, and SSH
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
The access point’s management system pages are organized the same way for the
web- browser interface and the CLI. The examples in this manual are all taken
from the browser interface. Chapter 2, “Using the Management Interfaces,”
provides a detailed description of each management option.
Roaming Client Devices
If you have more than one access point in your wireless LAN, wireless client
devices can roam seamlessly from one access point to another. The roaming
functionality is based on signal quality, not proximity. When a client’s signal
quality drops, it roams to another access point.
Wireless LAN users are sometimes concerned when a client device stays
associated to a distant access point instead of roaming to a closer access point.
However, if a client’s signal to a distant access point remains strong, the client will
not roam to a closer access point. If client devices checked constantly for closer
access points, the extra radio traffic would slow throughput on the wireless LAN.