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SonicOS 5.8.1 Administrator Guide
RF Management Overview
The following section provides a brief overview of the RF Management feature found on
SonicWALL security appliances running SonicOS Enhanced 5.0 or higher. This section
contains the following subsections:
• “Why RF Management?” section on page 582
• “Benefits” section on page 582
Why RF Management?
Radio Frequency (RF) technology used in today’s 802.11-based wireless networking devices
poses an attractive target for intruders. If left un-managed, RF devices can leave your wireless
(and wired) network open to a variety of outside threats, from Denial of Service (DoS) to
network security breaches.
In order to help secure your SonicPoint Wireless Access Point (AP) stations, SonicWALL takes
a closer look at these threats. By using direct RF management, SonicWALL helps detect threats
without interrupting the current operation of your wireless or wired network.
Benefits
SonicWALL RF Management provides real-time threat monitoring and management of
SonicPoint radio frequency traffic. In addition to its real-time threat management capabilities,
SonicWALL RF Management provides network administrators a system for centralized
collection of RF threats and traffic statistics; offering a way to easily manage RF capabilities
directly from the SonicWALL security appliance gateway
SonicWALL RF Management is:
• Real-Time - View logged information as it happens
• Transparent - No need to halt legitimate network traffic when managing threats
• Comprehensive - Provides detection of many types of RF threats. For complete
descriptions of the above types of RF Threat Detection, see the “Types of RF Threat
Detection” section on page 586.