Question 1
A troubleshooting report calls all wireless frames Ethernet frames and misidentifies the association step as a VLAN function. Which immediate engineering change most directly addresses this issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The underlying issue is that the engineer conflated the radio access protocol with wired frame forwarding and VLAN membership. This intervention addresses that cause directly. A useful result to confirm is: the revised packet-flow explanation distinguishes 802.11 association, 802.3 forwarding, and optional 802.1Q tags at the wired edge.
Incorrect Answers
This is suited to a different condition, such as when IPv6 endpoints receive router advertisements but cannot contact their application through a dual-stack campus. The reported fault instead arises because the engineer conflated the radio access protocol with wired frame forwarding and VLAN membership.
This is suited to a different condition, such as when a guest WLAN's 802.1X design is treated as interchangeable with 802.1Q tagging at the distribution switch. The reported fault instead arises because the engineer conflated the radio access protocol with wired frame forwarding and VLAN membership.
This is suited to a different condition, such as when an operator assumes a switch will discover a destination IP address from ARP when the target is on another subnet. The reported fault instead arises because the engineer conflated the radio access protocol with wired frame forwarding and VLAN membership.