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Station-table

This table displays information on the individual mobile stations logged onto the access point:

Index Indicates the order of the entries in the table
Age Countdown which resets to 60 minutes whenever a packet is received from a mobile station. The station is deleted from the station table when the countdown reaches the value 0.
Phy-signal Average signal strength of the data packets received from this station
Node ID Address of the station. A MAC address, IP address or a symbolic name for stations using DHCP, depending on available information.
LAN-Tx-bytes and LAN-Rx-bytes Volume of data transmitted to or received from a station
Status Can be 'None', 'Auth' or 'Assoc'.
When logging in, as station first identifies itself, then it "associates" itself, i.e. it logs in for data communication.
The status of 'Assoc' is required for the access point to permit data communication!
'Auth' indicates whether the station responds to an authentication by the access point.
Encaps. A variety of options are available for encapsulating Ethernet frames in a WLAN frame.
With the 'IEEE' method, a new header is prepended to the complete Ethernet packet. Another method uses a more intelligent procedure in which the headers are converted in one another and 'LLC-SNAP' encoding is used as the protocol identifier.
The access point recognizes both encoding forms automatically. If the choice is available, SNAP encoding is preferable as the overhead is 6 bytes lower per frame.
Rate Bandwidth used


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