Anatomy of a Secure Connection
In the previous chapters of this book, you have learned about wireless clients forming associations with wireless access points (APs) and passing data back and forth across the air. The main focus has been on the radio frequency (RF) conditions, the modulation schemes, and the management of airtime that are all necessary to send data from one place to another successfully.
As long as all clients and APs conform to the 802.11 standard, they can all coexist—even on the same channel. Not every 802.11 device is friendly and trustworthy, however. Sometimes it is easy to forget that transmitted frames do not just go directly from the sender to the receiver, as in a wired or switched connection. Instead, they travel according ...
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