Pinging Individual Mus; Mu Authentication Statistics - Extreme Networks Altitude 4700 Series Product Reference Manual

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% of Undecryptable
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8 Click OK to exit the screen.

Pinging Individual MUs

The access point can verify its link with an MU by sending WNMP ping packets to the associated MU.
Use the Echo Test screen to specify a target MU and configure the parameters of the ping test.
NOTE
An echo test initiated from the access point MU Stats Summary screen uses WNMP pings. Therefore,
target clients that are not Motorola MUs are unable to respond to the echo test.
To ping a specific MU to assess its connection with an access point:
1 Select Status and Statistics > MU Stats from the access point menu tree.
2 Select the Echo Test button from within the MU Stats Summary screen
3 Specify the following ping test parameters.
Station Address
Number of ping
Packet Length
Packet Data
4 Click the Ping button to begin transmitting ping packets to the station address specified.
Refer to the Number of Responses parameter to assess the number of responses from the target MU
versus the number of pings transmitted by the access point. Use the ratio of packets sent versus
packets received to assess the link quality between MU and the access point
Click the Ok button to exit the Echo Test screen and return to the MU Stats Summary screen.

MU Authentication Statistics

The access point can access and display authentication statistics for individual MUs.
Altitude 4700 Series Access Point Product Reference Guide
Displays the percentage of packets the AP gave up as not
received on for the selected MU. The number in black
represents the percentage of packets for the last 30
seconds and the number in blue represents the
percentage of packets for the last hour.
Displays the percentage of undecryptable packets for the
MU. The number in black represents the percentage of
undecryptable packets for the last 30 seconds and the
number in blue represents the percentage of
undecryptable packets for the last hour.
The IP address of the target MU. Refer to the MU Stats
Summary screen for associated MU IP address
information.
Specify the number of ping packets to transmit to the
target MU. The default is 100.
Specify the length of each data packet transmitted to the
target MU during the ping test. The default is 100 bytes.
Defines the data to be transmitted as part of the test.
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