Very interesting. I'm pretty familiar with the concepts behind WPS, but I was *not* aware of the WPS IE. Given the article title, I assume that's only available when using WPA2, which is not widely deployed yet. This looks to be very useful in the future.

What I (and I assume a lot of others) think of when I think of WPS is the Microsoft extension to PEAP that allows for provisioning of account information and the client connection settings. Currently, as far as I know, it is only actually implemented in IAS.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1203.mspx

--Mike


On Jul 10, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:

Michael:

I plead my ignorance here: what does WPS IE support have to do with RADIUS
servers? AFAIK, to support it you need APs that can broadcast the
information by forming the SSID broadcast frame correctly and clients with
the correct software so they can understand it.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=893357

Frank

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft's
development of WPS IE should hopefully reduce the problem.

Frank

Frank,

Have you seen any uptake on WPS from any of the third party RADIUS
Servers?  So far I assume it's still an IAS only solution.

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