Motorola AP-7131 Series, Reference Manual

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27. Set the following Non-Unicast Traffic values for the profile’s supported access point radio and its connected wireless
clients:
28. Refer to the Sniffer Redirect (Packet Capture) field to define the radio’s captured packet configuration.
29. Select the Enable Off Channel Scan radio button to permit scans on non designated channels for this radio. While this
affords the access point a greater likelihood of catching an unauthorized device, it does consume more bandwidth. The
default setting is disabled. Set the following
Channel Scanning properties for the selected access point radio:
30. Set the following AP7161/AP7181 specific values:
Forwarding Port Use the Forward Port spinner to configure the port on which to forward captured packets
to the Ekahau Engine.
MAC to be forwarded Use the text area to provide a MAC address that identifies that the packet is received
from Ekahau tags.
Broadcast/Multicast
Transmit Rate Use the Select drop-down menu to launch a sub screen to define the data rate broadcast
and multicast frames are transmitted. Seven different rates are available if the not using
the same rate for each BSSID, each with a separate menu.
Broadcast/Multicast
Forwarding Define whether client broadcast and multicast packets should always follow DTIM, or
only follow DTIM when using Power Save Aware mode. The default setting is Follow
DTIM.
Host for Redirected
Packets If packets are re-directed from an access point radio, define an IP address of a resource
(additional host system) used to capture the re- directed packets. This address is the
numerical (non DNS) address of the host used to capture the re-directed packets.
Channel to Capture
Packets Use the drop-down menu to specify the channel used to capture re-directed packets. The
default value is channel 1.
Off Channel Scan list for 5
GHz Use the drop-down menu to select the channels to scan in the 5 GHz band when
performing off channel scans.
Off Channel Scan list for
2.4 GHz Use the drop-down menu to select the channels to scan in the 2.4 GHz band when
performing off channel scans.
Max Multicast Use the spinner to set the number of multicast and broadcast packets queued in the
radio’s queue, when exceeded, off channel scan is skipped during the current scanning
interval.
Scan Interval Use the spinner to set the off channel scan interval in number of dtim periods.
Sniffer Redirect Use Sniffer Redirect text area to provide the IP address of a remote host where the
captured off channel scan packets are re-directed.
Enable Antenna Downtilt Antenna Downtilt is used where there need to be a separation between the 2.4 GHz and
5.0 GHz bands. The 2.4 GHz band is tilted by 15 degrees (up/down tilt) using software.
Select to enable downtilt.
Extend Range Select to enable extending the range of the access points. The access point uses various
technologies to extend their service range. Use the spinner to set the range of service.
Range can be 1 - 25 Kilometers.