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Chapter 3 Wireless LANs

NWD Series User’s Guide

The roles of registrar and enrollee last only as long as the WPS setup process is active (two

minutes). The next time you use WPS, a different device can be the registrar if necessary.

The WPS connection process is like a handshake; only two devices participate in each WPS

transaction. If you want to add more devices you should repeat the process with one of the existing

networked devices and the new device.

Note that the access point (AP) is not always the registrar, and the wireless client is not always the

enrollee. All WPS-certified APs can be a registrar, and so can some WPS-enabled wireless clients.

By default, a WPS devices is “unconfigured”. This means that it is not part of an existing network

and can act as either enrollee or registrar (if it supports both functions). If the registrar is

unconfigured, the security settings it transmits to the enrollee are randomly-generated. Once a

WPS-enabled device has connected to another device using WPS, it becomes “configured”. A

configured wireless client can still act as enrollee or registrar in subsequent WPS connections, but a

configured access point can no longer act as enrollee. It will be the registrar in all subsequent WPS

connections in which it is involved. If you want a configured AP to act as an enrollee, you must reset

it to its factory defaults.

3.4.1.1 Example WPS Network Setup

This section shows how security settings are distributed in an example WPS setup.

The following figure shows an example network. In step 1, both AP1 and Client 1 are

unconfigured. When WPS is activated on both, they perform the handshake. In this example, AP1

is the registrar, and Client 1 is the enrollee. The registrar randomly generates the security

information to set up the network, since it is unconfigured and has no existing information.

Figure 10 WPS: Example Network Step 1

In step 2, you add another wireless client to the network. You know that Client 1 supports registrar

mode, but it is better to use AP1 for the WPS handshake with the new client since you must

connect to the access point anyway in order to use the network. In this case, AP1 must be the

REGISTRARENROLLEE

SECURITY INFO

CLIENT 1

AP1

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