Provisioning of multiple wireless devices by an access point

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions in an access point (AP) for provisioning multiple wireless devices, wherein execution of said one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors contained in said AP enables said AP to perform the actions of:

• operating in a secure mode to disregard a first plurality of non-secure provisioning requests from wireless devices, but accept secure provisioning requests in view of operating in said secure mode;
• receiving, after said operating, a first command to accept non-secure provisioning requests from multiple wireless devices;
• receiving a second plurality of non-secure provisioning requests from respective ones of multiple wireless devices, after receipt of said first command;
• provisioning, by said AP, each of said multiple wireless devices in response to the corresponding non-secure provisioning request of said second plurality of non-secure provisioning requests, in view of having received said first command,
• wherein said provisioning comprises providing parameters which enable each of said multiple wireless devices to comply with security measures enforced by said AP to operate in said secure mode;
• and
• conducting secure layer-2 communication in said secure mode with each of the provisioned wireless devices, based on said parameters provided as a part of said provisioning.

A system comprising:

• a plurality of wireless devices;
• and
• an access point (AP) to provision each of said plurality of wireless devices, said AP comprising:
• a wireless interface enabled to receive provisioning requests from each of said plurality of wireless devices;
• and
• a provisioning block enabled to:
• operate in a secure mode to disregard a first plurality of non-secure provisioning requests from respective wireless devices, but accept secure provisioning requests in view of operating in said secure mode;
• receive a first command to accept non-secure provisioning requests from said plurality of wireless devices;
• receive a second plurality of non-secure provisioning requests from each respective ones of said plurality of wireless devices, after receipt of said first command;
• provisioning, by said AP, each of said plurality of wireless devices in response to the corresponding non-secure provisioning request, in view of having received said first command, wherein said provisioning comprises providing parameters which enable each of said multiple wireless devices to comply with security measures enforced by said AP to operate in said secure mode;
• and
• conducting secure layer-2 communication in said secure mode with each of the provisioned wireless devices, based on said parameters provided as a part of said provisioning.