Associated Clients

The associated stations are displayed along with information about packet traffic transmitted and received for each station. Click the Refresh button to refresh the page.

Field	Description
Network	Shows which VAP the client is associated with. For example, an entry of wlan0vap2 means the client is associated with Radio 1, VAP 2.
Station	Shows the MAC address of the associated wireless client.
Status	The Authenticated and Associated Status shows the underlying IEEE 802.11 authentication and association status, which is present no matter which type of security the client uses to connect to the AP. This status does not show IEEE 802.1X authentication or association status. Some points to keep in mind with regard to this field are: If the AP security mode is None or Static WEP, the authentication and association status of clients showing on the Client Associations tab will be in line with what is expected; that is, if a client shows as authenticated to the AP, it will be able to transmit and receive data. (This is because Static WEP uses only IEEE 802.11 authentication.) If the AP uses IEEE 802.1X or WPA security, however, it is possible for a client association to show on this tab as authenticated (via the IEEE 802.11 security) but actually not be authenticated to the AP via the second layer of security.
From Station	Shows the number of packets and bytes received from the wireless client and the number of packets and bytes that were dropped after being received.
To Station	Shows the number of packets and bytes transmitted from the AP to the wireless client and the number of packets and bytes that were dropped upon transmission.

Link Integrity Monitoring

The Access Point provides link integrity monitoring to continually verify its connection to each associated client. To do this, the AP sends data packets to clients every few seconds when no other traffic is passing. This allows the AP 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 within 300 seconds if these data packets are not acknowledged, even if no disassociation message is received.