Detecting And Combatting Rogue Devices; Overview - 3Com WX4400 Reference Manual

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ETECTING AND

This chapter discusses how to manage rogue devices that try to use your

wireless network. Information includes an overview of detection features,

enabling countermeasures, using the Rogue Detection tab, displaying a

rogue's geographical location, ignoring friendly third-party devices, and

converting a rogue into a third party AP.

MAP 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 3Com radios. MSS considers the

third-party transmitters to be devices of interest, which are potential

You can display information about the devices of interest. To identify

friendly devices, such as non-3Com access points in yours or your

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.

With 3WXM, you also can display the physical location of a rogue device.