802.11 General Frame Setting

The 802.11 General Frame Setting panel displays the total number of general threats and the option to enable long duration.

Selecting the Long Duration option and clicking Accept enables Long Duration. Wireless devices share airwaves by dividing the RF spectrum into 14 staggered channels. Each device reserves a channel for a specified (short) duration, and during the time that any one device has a channel reserved, other devices know not to broadcast on this channel. Long Duration attacks exploit this process by reserving many RF channels for very long durations, effectively stopping legitimate wireless traffic from finding an open broadcast channel. By default, this option is not specified.