CLI Reference Guide

Parameter Description
l 0 : pcap
l 1 : peek
l 2 : airmagnet
l 3 : pcap+radio header
l 4 : ppi
channel
(Optional/Applicable only in Air Monitor mode) Number of a radio channel to tune into to
capture packets.
maxlen
(Optional) Limit the length of 802.11 frames to include in the capture to a specified maximum.
interactive
Start an interactive packet capture session between an AP and a client running a packet
analyzer.
<filter-spec>
Packet Capture filter specification. See Usage Guidelines for details.
clear
Clears the packet capture session.
pause
Pause a packet capture session.
stop
Stop a packet capture session.
resume
Resume a packet capture session.
<pcap-id>
ID of the PCAP session.
Usage Guidelines
These commands direct an Dell AP to send WiFi packet captures to a client packet analyzer utility such as
Airmagnet, Wireshark and so on, on a remote client.
Before using these commands, you need to start the packet analyzer utility on the client and open a capture window
for the port from which you are capturing packets. The packet analyzer cannot be used to control the flow or type of
packets sent from Dell APs.
The packet analyzer processes all packets. However, you can apply display filters on the capture window to control
the number and type of packets being displayed. In the capture window, the timestamp displayed corresponds to the
time that the packet is recevied by the client and is not synchronized with the time on the Dell AP.
Filter specification (used in ap packet-capture interactive) supports the following:
- type (beacon/rts/cts/data/ack/ctrl/mgmt/all)
- sta (mac address)
- bss (mac address)
- da (mac address)
- sa (mac address)
- dir (tods, fromds)
- retry (1, 0)
- frag (1, 0)
- wep (1, 0)
Filter spec examples:
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