Allied Telesis AT-WA7400/EU - Manual (Page 192)

Chapter 17: Maintenance and Monitoring
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Viewing the Associated Wireless Clients
To view the client stations associated with a particular access point,
perform the following procedure:
1. From the main menu, select Status > Client Associations.
The Client Associations page is shown in Figure 56.
Figure 56. Client Associations Page
The associated stations are displayed along with information about packet
traffic transmitted and received for each station.
Link Integrity
Monitoring
The AT-WA7400 Wireless Access Point provides link integrity monitoring
to continually verify its connection to each associated client (even when
there is no data exchange occurring). To do this, the access point sends
data packets to clients every few seconds when no other traffic is passing.
This allows the access point to detect when a client goes out of range,
even during periods when no normal traffic is exchanged.The client
connection drops off the list of associated clients within 300 seconds of a
client disappearing, even if they do not disassociate (but went out of
range).
What is the
Difference
Between an
Association and a
Session?
An association describes a client connection to a particular access point.
A session describes a client connection to the network. A client network
connection can shift from one clustered access point to another within the
context of the same session. A client station can roam between access
points and still maintain the session.
For information on monitoring sessions, see Chapter 5, “Session
Monitoring” on page 65.