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This page is a comprehensive review of information and traffic for an individual station. Depending on the type of station, some of the reporting fields and settings options vary. The terms section below includes all terms and fields that appear on the different forms of the Station page.

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Station Identification and Status

The yellow table at the top of the Station page lists the following information:

• System Name -- The name assigned to the device.
  
  
• Device -- The type and model number of the device.
  
  
• MAC Address -- A unique identifier assigned by the manufacturer.
  
  
• IP Address -- The device's IP address. When you click the IP address link, the browser attempts to display the device's home page. Cisco Aironet access points, bridges, and workgroup bridges have browser-based interfaces, and many servers and printers have them also.
  
  
• VLAN ID -- The identification number of configured VLANs.
  
  
• Policy Grp. -- A group of filters specifically designed to allow or deny certain
  types of traffic from entering or leaving the access point.

• State -- Displays the operational state of the wireless station. Possible states include:
  • Assoc -- The station is associated with a device. Client stations associated with this device also show an Association Identifier (AID) value that is an index into a table of stations associated with this device. Maximum AID count is 2007.
  • Unauth -- The station is not authenticated with any device.
  • Auth -- The station is authenticated with a device.
  • Local Auth -- The station has authenticated at least once with this device.
    
    
• Class -- This field displays the type of station. Station types include:
  • AP -- An access point.
  • Client, PS Client -- A client or power-save client station.
  • Bridge, Bridge R -- A bridge or a root bridge.
  • Rptr -- A repeater.
  • Mcast -- A multicast address.
  • Infra -- An infrastructure node, typically a workstation with a wired connection to the Ethernet network.
    
    
• Status -- This field indicates the device's operating status. Possible status include:
  • OK -- The device is operating properly.
  • EAP Pending
  • EAP Authenticated
  • IP Forwarding Agent
  • BootP/DHCP Client -- The device is using BOOTP or DHCP protocol
  • ARP Proxy Server
  • IP Virtual Router
  • WEP -- WEP is enabled on the device.

To Station Information

Fields in the To Station column in the second table on the Station page contain the following information:

• Packets OK -- Reports the number of good packets coming to the station.
• Total Bytes OK -- Reports the number of good bytes coming to the station.
• Total Errors -- Reports the total number of packet errors coming to the station.
• Max. Retry Pkts -- Reports the number of times data packets have reached the maximum long or short retry number. Set the maximum RTS value on the AP/Root Radio Hardware page.
• Short Retries -- Reports the number of times the RTS packet had to be retried.
• Long Retries -- Reports the number of times the data packet had to be retried.

From Station Information

Fields in the To Station column contain the following information:

• Packets OK -- Reports the number of good packets sent from the station.
• Total Bytes OK -- Reports the number of good bytes sent from the station.
• Total Errors -- Reports the total number of packet errors sent from the station.
• WEP Errors -- Reports the number of encryption errors sent from the station.

Rate, Signal, and Status Information

The table under the To and From Station table lists rate, signal, and status information for the device.

Data rate and signal quality information appears on Station pages for client devices. On Station pages for access points or bridges, this area shows network information such as system uptime.

• Parent -- Displays the system name of the device to which the client, bridge, or repeater is associated. The entry [self] indicates that the device is associated with this device.
• Current Rate -- Reports the current data transmission rate. If the station is having difficulty communicating with the device, this might not be the highest operational rate.
• Latest Retries -- Tally of short and long data retries.
• Next Hop -- If repeater access points are used on the network, this field names the next access point in the repeater chain.
• Operational Rates -- The data transmission rates in common between the access point and the station.
• Latest Signal Strength -- Displays the current index of radio signal quality.

The following four fields appear only on the Station page for an access point or bridge:

• Stations Associated -- Displays, by number and class, all stations associated with the device.
• Uptime -- Displays the cumulative time the device has been operating since the last reset.
• Software Version -- Displays the version level of Cisco software on the device.
• Announcement Packets -- Total number of Announcement packets since the device was last reset.

Hops and Timing Information

The table at the bottom of the Station page lists information on the chain of devices, if any, between the device and the wired LAN, on the monitoring timeout for the device, and on the time of the most recent system activity.

• Hops to Infra -- The number of devices between this station and the network infrastructure.
• Activity Timeout -- Total time that can elapse after the last data receipt before the device presumes the client device has been turned off.
• Communication Over Interface -- The network port over which the access point or bridge is communicating with the device.
• Echo Packets -- The link test sequence number. It lists the total number of link test packets sent to this station.
• Latest Activity -- Elapsed time in hours, minutes, and seconds since the station and the device last communicated. All zeros means there is current communication.

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