802.11 Authentication Failure (Trap)

Access Points are designed to send traps to the manager applications, such as WiFi Manager or other network management applications, to inform failure conditions. The manager application on receipt of the traps would convert them into appropriate alarms and alerts the operators. Every access point has to be configured for the manager applications' IP address to which the Traps have to be sent.

802.11 Authentication Failure is one such trap, which is generated whenever a client fails to authenticate itself with the AP.

Description :

Failed authentication, could be due to the following reasons

• a rogue client is trying to contact the AP
• an authentication flood attack might be underway

Access Point sends trap to WiFi Manager whenever a failure occurs