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Zorluk: OrtaCisco Wireless Architectures and AP Modes

A network engineer needs to capture raw 802.11 wireless frames over the air on a specific channel to troubleshoot client connectivity failures in a manufacturing warehouse. The dedicated access point used for this operation must stop serving wireless clients and send all captured 802.11 traffic directly to a remote network analyzer tool such as Wireshark. Which Cisco Access Point mode must be configured to accomplish this objective?

  1. Sniffer modeCevap
  2. B
    Monitor mode
  3. C
    Rogue Detector mode
  4. D
    FlexConnect mode

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Sniffer mode is the dedicated AP mode used to capture raw 802.11 frames on a specified channel and forward them to a remote packet analyzer tool like Wireshark.
Sniffer mode dedicates the access point radio to listening on a specific channel, capturing raw 802.11 frames, and encapsulation-tunneling those captured frames to a designated IP address running a network packet analyzer such as Wireshark.

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1
Identify the primary operational requirement in the scenario.
The AP must capture raw 802.11 over-the-air frames on a dedicated channel and forward them to a packet analyzer (Wireshark) without servicing clients.
Troubleshooting complex 802.11 Layer 2 issues requires dedicated frame-level capture capabilities.
2
Evaluate Cisco AP modes against the required capability.
Sniffer mode turns the AP into a dedicated wireless packet capture device tied to a designated channel and target analyzer IP address.
Other modes either continue to service clients (FlexConnect, Local) or perform non-streaming security monitoring functions (Monitor, Rogue Detector).

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