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Custom Naming of Devices in the WAX610
Using the WAX610 AP web browser admin, under Management=>Monitoring=>Connected Clients, is there anyway to apply a "vanity" name to each device? Keeping track of MACs that jump in and out becomes te...
Hi schumaku, I get your valid point. I'm using the RBR20 in simple AP mode connected to a Netgate pfSense router. pfSense handles the DHCP. Nevertheless, the RBR20 in AP mode still allows me to go in an add vanity names to the mac's that appear on it's wifi. And as these devices come and go, their names seem to be remembered. I also have the WAX610 connected to a separate input port on the NetGate. I don't know how the WAX610 is designed but from what you say, i guess the WAX is somewhat dumb and doesn't have the ability to remember prior attendees and therefore has no place to store vanity names.
By the way, what's a "User Name", i.e. found on the Connected Clients list at the end of each device. All are set to "Unknown Username".
Industry standard Wireless Access Points. Nothing dumb at all.
Let's brainstorm what should happen if there are dozens or hundreds of APs on a network. Do you expect each does individually maintain a list, limited to that single AP only?
Usernames? Many 80211 AAA schemes are making use (explicit or implicitly) provided usernames - these will of course show up in the audit and connection logs.
I'm the last one to ask how to design an AP...but to answer, "Do you expect each does individually maintain a list, limited to that single AP only?" I say, Why Not? Can't imagine it taking much memory to accumulate a cache of existing and prior MACs and allow the AP's admin to name them. It seems to me that it would provide a more rapid response to wifi devices causing different issues from bandwidth hogging to security threats.
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