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Chapter 23: Maintenance And Monitoring
Neighboring Access Points
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Information provided on neighboring access points is described in Table 23.3.
Field Description
MAC Address Shows the MAC address of the neighboring access point.
A
MAC address is a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network.
Radio Two-Radio APs
If the access point that is “doing the detecting” of neighboring APs is a two-radio access point, the
Radio field is included.
The Radio field indicates which radio the neighboring AP was detected on:
• wlan0 (Radio One)
• wlan1 (Radio Two)
One-Radio APs
This field is not included on the Neighboring Access Points pages of one-radio access points.
Beacon Interval Shows the Beacon interval being used by this access point.
Beacon frames are transmitted by an access point at regular intervals to announce the existence of
the wireless network. The default behaviour is to send a beacon frame once every
100 milliseconds
(or 10 per second).
The Beacon Interval is set on the Advanced, Radio Settings page. (See Chapter 16: “Configuring
Radio Settings”.)
Type Indicates the type of device:
• AP indicates the neighboring device is an access point that supports the IEEE 802.11
Wireless Networking Framework in Infrastructure Mode.
• Ad hoc indicates a neighboring station running in Ad hoc Mode. Stations set to ad hoc
mode communicate with each other directly, without the use of a traditional access point.
Ad-hoc mode is an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Framework also referred to as
“peer-to-peer” mode or an Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS).
SSID The Service Set Identifier ( SSID ) for the access point.
The SSID is an alphanumeric string of up to 32 characters that uniquely identifies a wireless local
area network. It is also referred to as the “Network Name”.
The SSID is set in Basic Settings. (See Chapter 5: “Configuring Basic Settings”) or in Advanced,
Wireless Settings (see Chapter 12: “Setting the Wireless Interface”.)
A Guest network and an Internal network running on the same access point must always have two
different network names.
Table 23.3 Neighboring Access Point Statistics