Management Packets

Management packets, like ascendancy packets, are additionally unauthenticated. However, because best administration packets are alone candy by stations on the aforementioned network, they could be accurate in the approaching and assignment is currently underway on that.

Management packets are acclimated to accomplish assorted aerial tasks associated with active a wireless network, including such things as advertence to a arrangement and award a arrangement to accessory with. Administration frames that can about be apparent in the agrarian are apparent in Table 3-2. Best of the packets in this table are covered in detail in "Finding and Connecting to Wireless Networks," after in this chapter.

Table 3-2: Important Administration Packets Type

Subtype

Description

Management

0

Association request

Management

1

Association response

Management

2

Reassociation request

Management

3

Reassociation response

Management

4

Probe request

Management

5

Probe response

Management

8

Beacon

Management

10

Disassociation

Management

11

Authentication

Management

12