Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs: broadcast and non-broadcast

Michael Griego Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:02:14 -0700

If I had to make an educated guess, I'd say yes. Since the WPS IE is something that the AP would have to determine and broadcast in management frames, I'd say that the two (IE and RADIUS pieces) are related but not reliant on each other.


--Mike


On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:

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-----
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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-----
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:37 PM
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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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