Specifications

Status Information
4-108 Advanced Configuration
• StationAddressistheMACaddressofthewirelessclient.
• Authenticateddisplaysifthestationhasbeenauthenticated.Thetwobasicmethodsof
authenticationsupportedfor802.11wirelessnetworksare“opensystem”and“sharedkey.”
Open‐systemauthenticationacceptsanyclientattempting toconnecttotheaccesspoint
withoutverifying
itsidentity.Theshared‐keyapproachusesWiredEquivalentPrivacy(WEP)
toverifyclientidentitybydistributingasharedkeytostationsbeforeattempting
authentication.
• Associateddisplaysifthestationhasbeensuccessfullyassociatedwiththeaccesspoint.Once
authenticationiscompleted,stationscanassociatewiththecurrentaccesspoint,or
reassociate
withanewaccesspoint.Theassociationprocedureallowsthewirelesssystemtotrackthe
locationofeachmobileclient,andensurethatframesdestinedforeachclientareforwardedto
theappropriateaccesspoint.
• ForwardingAlloweddisplaysifthestationhaspassed802.11authenticati on,andisnow
allowed
toforwardtraffictotheaccesspoint.
• KeyTypedisplaysthecurrentkeytypeusedforencryption.Oneofthefollowingisdisplayed:
– NONE–usedforopenauthenticationwithoutencryption.
– STATICWEP–usediftheclientisusingWEPkeyforencryption.
– DYNAMIC–usedfor802.1xauthenticationwith
WEPdynamickeying.
– WPA‐PSK‐TKIP–usedforWPA/WPA2presharedkeywithTKIPCiper.
– WPA‐PSK‐AES–usedforWPA/WPA2presharedkeywithAES.
– WPA‐TKIP–usedforWPAwithTKIPcipher.
– WPA‐AES–usedforWPA/WPa2withAEScipher.
• Tx(AP‐>STA)pkts/bytesdisplaysthepacketstransmit ted
fromtheaccesspoint.
• Rx(STA‐>AP)pkts/bytesdisplaysthepacketsreceivedfromneighboringaccesspoints.
• VLANIDdisplaystheVLANID.