WPS ER with Dnone

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Fri May 27 12:16:46 EDT 2011


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:08:30AM +0530, soumya.sardar at wipro.com wrote:
> I am little confused here. I have linux laptop, where I am trying to
> build wpa_supplicant 0.7.3 to use it as an wireless ER. So does ER send
> and receive only IP packets for both wireless or UpnP version? 
> 
> For wirless ER my understanding was its still need to send wifi frames
> using the wireless chip.

WPS has two transport options: EAP-WSC and UPnP. The former will
require support for wireless functionality and cannot be used with
-Dnone. The latter will work either over wireless or wired interface
(i.e., any IP network that is shared with the AP is fine).

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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