Wireless Access

I am having issues with wifi clients and have captured packets from my air monitor. where can I find documentation on analyzing theses packets to determine possible issues.

any help would be great

thanks

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The CWAP book is a good book for wifi analysis.  It's not necessarily step-by-step instructions, but it explains all the frame types that you'll see in your capture and how to analyze them.

https://www.cwnp.com/certifications/cwap

 

Savvius Omnipeek is very good at packet analysis (and captures!) and is capable of pointing out possible issues.  It's not going to do all the work for you, but it can be helpful.  I believe AirMagnet Wifi Analyzer pro is also capable of providing insight into packet captures; I don't have personal experience with it.  Both products will cost you a couple thousand US $.

thanks this will help me long term but looking for something that can help me a device not connecting to controller, ap sees it but mac in fdb does not populate


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Honestly, troubleshooting typically goes to the packet analysis level almost last.  First you define the problem, isolate how many clients have this issue and gather the particulars.  A packet analysis many times has very few clues about what the problem is much less the solution.  Typically it only shows a general issue or a general problem and you have to work with the client and the "system" to make sure the client has every opportunity to connect.

 

What is your problem?

seems to be that that a paticular device model will not populate its mac into the aruba controller thus not getting an ip address. all other device types are working fine.

What device type and what encryption is being used?

its is a bbraun spacestation

 

it is supposed to be wpa2 psk aes

 

the specs the have online confirmed out of date

Based on the manual here:  http://www.frankshospitalworkshop.com/equipment/documents/infusion_pumps/user_manuals/B.Braun_SpaceStation_-_User_manual.pdf I see that it only supports WEP and WPA.  Do you have a different model?