Communications between Cisco APs for the handoff protocol happens over
the wired Ethernet, not over the air.

However, newer APs are supposed to detect rogue APs in some way, don't
know the details of that protocol.  Does anyone else here know?

Greg DesBrisay



On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 16:41, Eric Sorenson wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jon Katz wrote:
> 
> > AP's may not associate with each other, but at least the 340's 
> > definitely listen to each other.
> 
> Yes they use CDP (cisco discovery protocol) and some additional
> multicast-based communication amongst themselves. I recall reading
> that this traffic helps client handoff but I don't have any
> technical details on hand.  My APs (340) show these groups in
> the Associations menu:
> 
>  -multicast-   AWC Mcast AP-Only   Unassigned   014096ffff00          
>  -multicast-   AWC Mcast All   Unassigned   014096ffffff          
>  -multicast-   AWC Mcast BSS   Unassigned   014096000000      
> 
> Some Googling[tm] doesn't show up any protocol information, however. 
> 
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