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Rogue Detection and Countermeasures

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 in a network and can single out the unauthorized
rogue access points.
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.
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 in the network. 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.
D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual

Rogue Access Points and Clients

Rogue Classification