Rogue AP for android phone Wifi off

[Jomar]

Hi,

Can you help me with this issue it emails an alert that my android phone is seen as a rogue ap but the wifi is turned off rather I'm using my phone data as a hotspot

[BrandonS]

So, you are connected via USB cable to your phone for a hotspot?

Otherwise, I would say Wi-Fi is enabled and therefore it’s a valid rogue alert.

[Jomar]

there's no wired connection because I'm using my personal phone to connect to my company phone via mobile hotspot and it's kinda weird because it only happens yesterday

[NolanHerring]

It's a known issue. If a mobile phone connects to the wireless, and then the person decides to disconnect and enable their hotspot on that phone, it will trigger Air Marshal to detect it as a 'Rogue' for being 'Seen on LAN'. No known fix as far as I know.

[Jomar]

Hi NolanHerring
Do you know if this issue has been published or post by meraki? and if so can you send me the link for the article

thank you!

[Nash]

What Nolan describes matches my own experience. We basically investigate, see it's a cellphone, then shrug. Same as we do with DirectWifi or people's cars.

[NolanHerring]

Nothing I can reference no sorry. It was a phone call to support when I initially came across it a few years ago.

[NolanHerring]

I also have a SSID whitelist for all my sites, to 'allow if match wildcard DIRECT-* "

[randhall]

While it may be a bug, we leverage it to investigate coverage holes. Our environment is fairly isolated. If someone's been on our network before and then fires up a hotspot it is most likely because we're providing poor coverage. We send the user an email and ask if they were encountering a problem with our network. We also suggest that their use of a hotspot often serves to make any problem worse. (Makes us real popular 🙂