Installation guide

Chapter 10
144 Sniffer Technologies
Station Identity Table
The Station Identity table includes statistics identifying this station — its DLC
address, the channel on which it was seen, and so on. Table 10-12 lists and
describes the counters in the Station Identity table.
ACK The number of ACK frames sent and received
by this station, broken out by service category.
Stations send acknowledge frames to indicate
that they have received an error-free frame.
RTS The number of RTS frames sent and received
by this station, broken out by service category.
Stations send RTS frames to negotiate how a
data frame will be sent.
CTS The number of CTS frames sent and received
by this station, broken out by service category.
Stations send CTS frames to acknowledge the
receipt of an RTS frame and to indicate that
they are ready to receive data.
Retry The number of Retry frames sent and received
by this station, broken out by service category.
Stations send retry frames when they receive
no acknowledgment to a previously sent frame.
Fragmented The number of fragmented frames sent and
received by this station, broken out by service
category.
When possible (and if configured to do so),
wireless stations break frames into smaller
units (fragments) to provide a greater degree of
reliability (large data units can become corrupt
more easily than small ones). Receiving
stations reassemble fragments into full frames
(a process called defragmentation).
Table 10-14. Counters in the Station Identity Table (1 of 2)
Counter Description
Wireless Address The MAC layer address for this wireless station.
Table 10-13. Counters in the Traffic Statistics Table (2 of 2)
Counter Description