User's Manual

A Appendix
A-36 • AP User’s Guide Atheros Communications, Inc.
A-36 • March 2003 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
The BSS Stats window for AP is divided into sections that provide the AP
configuration, Access Point SME statistics (station association information), or
Access Point (Transmit and Receive) Statistics. Refer to Table A-15 for a
description of the BSS Statistics for AP window fields.
The AP Stats window automatically updates every five seconds.
Table A-15. BSS Stats Field for AP Descriptions
BSS Stats Field Description
State Current state of the AP.
Authentication Type Specifies open-system or shared key.
Encryption Specifies the enabled state of encryption; either yes
or no.
Cipher Advertised Specifies current state of advertised cipher
negotiations, AES and/or WEP, and None (clear).
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 AP.
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 packets both sent
and received.
Errors Specifies the error count for both transmit and
receive.
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.