User's Manual Part 2

The Extricom WLAN System User Guide 47
IDS Tab
Intrusion detection system (IDS): Malicious WLAN clients can cause a denial of service by
flooding the WLAN network. Denial of services is identified through attack signatures or other
factors, most of which are well-known. The IDS tab allows the user to enable this mechanism, set
thresholds for identifying an attack and choose type of attack to be detected. The IDS mechanism
detects 802.11 duration attack and 802.11 management messages flooding attacks. Upon attack
detection, the system sends a Trap message notifying the event and when applicable provides
attacker details (i.e. MAC address). Network administrator can use this information to take action
and block malicious users.
Figure 28: IDS Configuration