topic Re: Authentication vs association on the WCS graph chart in Wireless

Authentication vs association on the WCS graph chart

Starthorn — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 01:06:32 GMT

When I go into WCS it shows me a chart oh how many people have connected on certain dates.

One bar on the graph is blue which means assoicated clients. It tells me I have 40.

The other bar is gold or yellow. It tells me I have 38.

We might have 2 people on a authenticated network who work in IT but the rest would be in the open ssid. We would not have 38 authenticated.

my question is why does it say authenticated when I know there are not that many people authenticated. What does it really mean?

Starthorn — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:34:13 GMT

I got the colors backwards

Lucien Avramov — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:36:04 GMT

authenticated mean, the client got an ip address.

associated is when the client is connecting to the SSID but has not an IP address yet.

Make sense?

Starthorn — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:39:00 GMT

Yeah I get it now. I don't think its the most intuitive way of WCS to express that but now I know