Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 5
Viewing Access Points Only
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You can click the Access Point button in the Host Table’s 802.11
tab to zoom in on access points only.
The statistics available in the Access Point view are somewhat different
than those in the full 802.11 tab, as summarized in the table below.
Table 5-7. Host Table Counters in the Access Point View
Counter Description
Access Points The hardware address for each detected
access point.
Status The Status column lets you monitor
Known, Rogue, and Neighbor stations in
your WLAN. It appears whenever Enable
Rogue AP Lookup and/or Enable Rogue
Mobile Unit Lookup is turned on in either
Tools > Wireless > Rogue or Tools >
Expert Options > 802.11 Options.
As you use the Host Table, you can flag a
wireless entity as either Known or
Neighbor by checking its box in the
leftmost # column, right-clicking, and
selecting either Add to Wireless Units List
as Known or Add to Wireless Units List
as Neighbor. The value you assign will
appear in the Status column, helping you
keep track of unknown entities on your
WLAN. See Adding Known Addresses to the
List on page 141 for information on the
different ways you can automatically add
addresses to the list of known units, how
rogues are flagged in Sniffer Portable
Professional displays, and so on.
ESSID The Extended Service Set ID associated with
this station.
Encryption The last observed encryption method for this
host. Possible values include:
• RC4-Open (WEP)
• RC4-TKIP (WPA-PSK)
• AES-CCMP (WPA2-PSK)
•Unencrypted
If this field is empty, then no encryption is in
use.