ActionTec 802AA, User Manual

Page: 38 / 41

Preliminary Chapter
2
Actiontec Electronics, Inc. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
The BSS Stats window for AP is divided into sections that provide the AP
configuration, Access Point SME statistics (station association information), or
Access Point (Transmit and Receive) Statistics. Refer to Table A-5 for a
description of the BSS Statistics for AP window fields.
Table A-5. BSS Stats Fields for AP Descriptions
BSS Stats Field Description
State Current state of the AP.
Authentication Type Specifies open-system or shared key.
Power Save
Specifies the enabled state of the power save
option; either yes or no.
WEP
Current state of Wired Equivalent Privacy; either
on or off.
Authentication/Deauthentication Number of times a STA attempted authentication
and deauthentication.
Association/Deassociation
Number of times a STA attempted associations
and deassociations.
MSDU
Maximum Service Data Unit. Specifies the
number of packets sent and received by the AP.
Data/Management/Control
Packets can either be data, control, or
management. Specifies the number of packets
sent and received for each.
Multicast
Specifies the number of multicast packets both
sent and received.
Errors
Specifies the error count for both transmit
and receive.
Broadcast/Multicast Transmit
Rate Specifies the transmit rate of broadcast/multicast
packets.
Short Frame/Long Frame
Specifies the number of transmitted short and
long frames. A short frame is less than 500 bytes;
long frames are equal to or greater than 500
bytes.
Receive Errors Specifies the number of receive errors.
Acknowledgement Receive
Failures Specifies the number of acknowledgement
receive errors.
FCS Failures Specifies the number of receive FCS failures.
Discarded Frames
Specifies the number of receive
discarded frames.
CRC Errors Specifies the number of receive CRC errors.
Transmit Errors Specifies number of transmit errors.
Discarded Frames
Specifies the number of transmit discarded
frames.