802.11 Frame Types - Management Frames
802.11 Management Frames are used primarily as the name might suggest, to manage the wireless medium. The type of value regardless of which management subtype you see (covering this shortly) will always be shown as Type 00 as highlighted in the image below. This helps identify to the wireless device that the packet is a management frame; the same function happens for the control "01" and data frames "10". Management frames come in different shapes and sizes but some of the most important are as follows: Beacon: Beacon frames are transmitted by the Access Point to announce the existence of a Basic Service Set. This will contain information about the BSS such as the SSID, supported data rates, country and (due to most APs being 11n and 11ac capable) 11n and 11ac capabilities and information. It's worth noting beacons are transmitted at set intervals, this can be configured to either increase or decrease the time frame in between ...