D-Link DWS-4026 [516/741] Detected client pre authentication summary

MonitoringStatusandStatistics

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November2011 Page516

D‐LinkUWSUserManual

DetectedClientPre‐AuthenticationSummary

Tohelpauthenticatedclientsroamwithoutlosingsessionsandneedingtore‐authenticate,wirelessclientscan

attempttoauthenticatetootherAPswithinrangethattheclientcouldpossiblyassociatewith.Forsuccessful

pre‐authentication,thetargetAPmusthaveaVAPwithanSSIDandsecurityconfigurationthatmatchesthat

oftheclien

t,includingMACauthentication,encryptionmethod,andpre‐sharedkeyorRADIUSparameters.

ThetheAPthattheclientisassociatedwithcapturesallpre‐authenticationrequestsandsendsthemtothe

switch.

TheDetectedClientPre‐AuthenticationHistorySummarypagelistsdetectedclientsthathavemadepre‐

authenticationre

questsandidentifiestheAPsthathavereceivedtherequests.

Figure347:DetectedClientPre‐AuthenticationHistorySummary

ThefollowingtabledescribesthefieldsontheDetectedClientPre‐AuthenticationHistorySummarypage.

CommandButtons

Thepageincludesthefollowingbutton:

• Refresh—Updatesthepagewiththelatestinformation.

Table313:DetectedClientPr

e‐AuthenticationHistorySummary

Field Description

MACAddress MACaddressoftheclient.

APMACAddress MACAddressofthemanagedAPtowhichtheclienthaspre‐authenticated.Thisfield

canshowahistoryofuptotenpre‐authenticationsforeachclient.