Vista As A Wps External Registrar - ZyXEL Communications P-663HN-51 User Manual

Chapter 18 Wireless LAN
• When you use the PBC method, there is a short period (from the moment you
press the button on one device to the moment you press the button on the
other device) when any WPS-enabled device could join the network. This is
because the registrar has no way of identifying the "correct" enrollee, and
cannot differentiate between your enrollee and a rogue device. This is a possible
way for a hacker to gain access to a network.
You can easily check to see if this has happened. WPS works between only two
devices simultaneously, so if another device has enrolled your device will be
unable to enroll, and will not have access to the network. If this happens, open
the access point's configuration interface and look at the list of associated
clients (usually displayed by MAC address). It does not matter if the access
point is the WPS registrar, the enrollee, or was not involved in the WPS
handshake; a rogue device must still associate with the access point to gain
access to the network. Check the MAC addresses of your wireless clients
(usually printed on a label on the bottom of the device). If there is an unknown
MAC address you can remove it or reset the AP.

18.10.5 Vista as a WPS External Registrar

Use an Ethernet cable to connect a Windows Vista computer directly to one of the
ZyXEL Device's Ethernet ports to let the computer give wireless settings to the
ZyXEL Device and then later to wireless clients using the WPS PIN method.
Figure 84 Windows Vista Computer Connected to a ZyXEL Device Ethernet Port
18.10.5.1 Vista Configuring the ZyXEL Device's Wireless Settings
Go to the ZyXEL Device's Wireless > Security screen and copy the ZyXEL
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Device's identification PIN.
In Windows Vista, go to your network connections and double-click the ZyXEL AP
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icon to open the Windows Connect Now (WCN) screens.
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