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Cisco Aironet Access Point Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 13 Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
Tracing Packets
Step 2 To trace packets sent or received through the access point’s Ethernet port, click
Ethernet in the yellow header row. To trace packets sent or received through the
access point’s radio port, click AP Radio in the yellow header row. The Ethernet
Port or AP Radio Port page appears.
Step 3 Click the alert checkbox in the Receive header to trace packets received through
the Ethernet or radio port. Click the alert checkbox in the Transmit header to trace
packets sent through the Ethernet or Radio port.
Note Copying packets into access point memory slows the access point’s
performance. When you finish tracing packets, deselect the alert
checkboxes on the Station pages.
If you want the access point to trace packets all the time, reduce the
impact on performance by selecting Record for the External
Information setting on the Event Handling Setup page and select Port
Information on the Event Display Setup page for the “Severity Level
at which to display events immediately on the console” setting. With
this configuration, the access point records packets in a log file but
does not spend time insantly displaying packets on the CLI.
Step 4 Click Refresh. The network interface you are tracing appears in red on the
Summary Status, Setup, and Network Ports pages.
Step 5 Follow the steps in the “Viewing Packet Trace Data” section on page 13-35 to
view the traced packets in a log file or on the CLI.
Viewing Packet Trace Data
If you store traced packets in a log file, you can view or save the file. If you do
not store traced packets, you can view the packets in real time on the access point
CLI.