User's Manual

A Appendix
A-38 • AP User’s Guide Atheros Communications, Inc.
A-38 • March 2003 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
Table A-16 summarizes the information fields on the BSS Stats window for
aSTA.
Table A-16. BSS Stats Fields for STA Descriptions
BSS Stats Window for STA Field Description
AID The ID of the STA.
State The current state of the STA
Power Save Specifies the enabled state of the power save option;
either yes or no.
Encryption Specifies current state of encryption; AES and/or
WEP, and None (clear).
Advertised Cipher Specifies the supported cipher types.
Unicast Cipher Specifies the current unicast cipher type used.
Multicast Cipher Specifies the current multicast cipher type used.
Authentication/Deauthentication Number of times a STA attempted authentication and
deauthentication.
Association/Deassociation Number of times a STA attempted associations and
deassociations.
MSDU Maximum Service Data Unit. Specifies the number of
packets sent and received by the STA.
Data/Management/Control Packets can either be data, control, or management.
Specifies the number of packets sent and received for
each.
Multicast Specifies the number of multicast frames.
Errors Specifies the error count for both transmit and receive
sides.
Signal Strength Specifies the strength of the transmit and receive
signals in dBm.
Data Rate (Mbps) Specifies the transmit and receive data rate in Mbps.
Receive Errors Specifies the number of receive errors.
Discarded Frames Specifies the number of receive discarded frames.
Duplicate Frames Specifies the number of receive duplicate frames.
CRC Errors Specifies the number of receive CRC errors.
PHY Errors Specifies the number of receive PHY errors.
DMA Errors Specifies the number of receive DMA errors.
Transmit Errors Specifies the number of transmit errors.
Discarded Frames Specifies the number of transmit discarded frames.
Excessive Retries Specifies the number of transmit excessive retries.
DMA Errors Specifies the number of transmit DMA errors.