Mike:

Ah, now I see what you're talking about!  

They are related, but not the same.  Can you have take advantage of the WPS
IE frames (i.e.: one broadcast frame about multiple SSIDs) in Windows XP
without the backend?

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Griego [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs: broadcast and non-broadcast

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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: King, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:37 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs: broadcast and non-broadcast
>
>
>
>> -----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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