Rogue Detection And Countermeasures; About Rogues And Rf Detection - D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual

DWS-1008 User's Manual
AP radios automatically scan the RF spectrum for other devices transmitting in the same
spectrum. The RF scans discover third-party transmitters in addition to other D-Link radios.
MSS considers the non-D-Link transmitters to be devices of interest, which are potential
rogues.
You can display information about the devices of interest. To identify friendly devices, such
as non-D-Link access points in your network or neighbor's network, you can add them to the
known devices list. You also can enable countermeasures to prevent clients from using the
devices that truly are rogues.

About Rogues and RF Detection

RF detection detects all the IEEE 802.11 devices and can single out the unauthorized rogue
access points.
Rogue Access Points and Clients
A rogue access point is an access point that is not authorized to operate in a network. Rogue
access points and their clients undermine the security of an enterprise network by potentially
allowing unchallenged access to the network by any wireless user or client in the physical
vicinity. Rogue access points and users can also interfere with the operation of your enterprise
network.
Rogue Classification
When MSS detects a third-party wireless device that is not allowed on the network, MSS
classifies the device as one of the following:
• Rogue - The device is in the D-Link network but does not belong there.
• Interfering device - The device is not part of the D-Link network but also is not a rogue.
No client connected to the device has been detected communicating with any network
entity listed in the forwarding database (FDB) of any switch. Although the interfering
device is not connected to your network, the device might be causing RF interference
with AP radios.
When you enable countermeasures, you can specify whether to issue them against
rogues and interfering devices, or against rogues only. For example, if you do not want to
issue countermeasures against your neighbor's wireless devices, you can select to issue
countermeasures against rogues only. RF Auto-Tuning can automatically change AP radio
channels to work around interfering devices without attacking those devices.
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