Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [External] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone else seeing any issues in the fall with large classrooms and delayed connection times (Aruba 8.5.0.13)

2021-09-02 Thread Michael Davis
We see about 28K devices peak and so far haven't seen the issue crop up.  We did just upgrade to 8.7.1.4 just before the Semester begun, because we were getting smacked by the false radar detection bug that was causing AP reboots. On 9/2/21 8:50 AM, Rob Harris wrote: Has anyone seen any

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone else seeing any issues in the fall with large classrooms and delayed connection times (Aruba 8.5.0.13)

2021-09-01 Thread Michael Davis
Is your backend (controllers - Radius) all jumbo frame clean?  We've seen issues with large EAP-TLS packets getting fragmented. We also had a specific OS8 release bug affecting AP-515s specifically, but it seems like we're in perpetual bug-chasing mode so I can't recall what version that was.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Papercut Mobility-print and Enterprise mDNS

2021-03-22 Thread Michael Davis
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 2:04 PM Michael Davis <mailto:da...@udel.edu>> wrote: We are an Aruba shop, but I'm curious about any campus WiFi deployments using Papercut Mobility-print. We've recently started looking at the mobility-print feature of Papercut.

Papercut Mobility-print and Enterprise mDNS

2021-03-19 Thread Michael Davis
We are an Aruba shop, but I'm curious about any campus WiFi deployments using Papercut Mobility-print. We've recently started looking at the mobility-print feature of Papercut.  We have it working in some small and testing deployments, but we're having difficulty getting Android and Windows

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Wireless- MacBook WiFi slow on 5gHz channels 60-64

2021-02-24 Thread Michael Davis
How did you isolate it to channels 60+ and 64- ?   We have started seeing odd issues with MacBooks on AP 200 series APs, but never thought to correlate it to channels yet. Clients are unable to connect or connect with poor performance to APs in or right outside their rooms, but go to other

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] (EXTERNAL) Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Clearpass Voucher System

2021-01-28 Thread Michael Davis
If you run eduroam on site and depending on what your security view is of guests and their access, you may want to look into just directing long-term guests at the Anyroam service (https://www.anyroam.net/) and enabling access for your campus.  It gives them a 1-year certificate and you can

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.11 or 8.6.0.6 Experiences?

2020-12-18 Thread Michael Davis
03) 464-2397 O: (919) 962-6564 Sent from my mobile device so please excuse any typos. *From:*The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> on behalf of Michael Davis mai

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.11 or 8.6.0.6 Experiences?

2020-12-18 Thread Michael Davis
-2397 O: (919) 962-6564 Sent from my mobile device so please excuse any typos. *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv on behalf of Michael Davis *Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:22:13 PM

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.11 or 8.6.0.6 Experiences?

2020-12-17 Thread Michael Davis
It's not so rare, it's been happening to our 515s since 8.4. The AP will upgrade successfully, but the apboot> environment variable that selects which partition to boot, never gets changed so it reboots to the old partition and rinse and repeat. On 12/17/20 9:03 PM, Miller, Keith C wrote:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Client roaming

2020-10-14 Thread Michael Davis
using real-time protocols than ever before.  Those protocols make brief connectivity issues very noticeable.  It’s quite possible we’ve always had these problems, but they rarely bothered users enough to make them open trouble tickets. *From:*The EDUCAUSE

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Client roaming

2020-10-09 Thread Michael Davis
We're an Aruba shop and only seeing it on iOS and MacOS devices. On 10/9/20 10:44 AM, Mallon, Jason wrote: I have not been able to pinpoint a device type as of yet.  It seems to be happening across all platforms including game systems. Thanks, *Jason Mallon*| Network Engineer III

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.7

2020-03-31 Thread Michael Davis
AFAIK 8.6 will be the first to support the complete 802.11ax suite.  While 8.5 provides support for the 500-series and their WiFi6 components, they are incomplete. So we'll all eventually be there, for now they're concentrating on getting 8.5 stable. On 3/31/20 4:39 PM, Adam Forsyth wrote:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.7

2020-03-31 Thread Michael Davis
an upgrade? Also, were any of this APs factory reset? *Cesar Fernandez * *Sr. Network Engineer* *University of San Diego* On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:36 PM Michael Davis <mailto:da...@udel.edu>> wrote: We're on 8.5.0.7.  So far only one odd issue with SNMP traps exploding Airw

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.7

2020-03-30 Thread Michael Davis
We're on 8.5.0.7.  So far only one odd issue with SNMP traps exploding Airwave (110K traps during the upgrade) but with no one on campus, testing is limited. I have a recurring issue (since 8.5.0.6) with AP-515s not flipping their boot variable and getting stuck in an end-less upgrade loop..

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Device visibility in Aruba AirGroup + ClearPass

2020-03-04 Thread Michael Davis
If you setup your SSIDs not to allow client-to-client communication and pass all mDNS,etc. traffic through CPPM, then the users can register devices and only those they designate to share to (clients, APs, ap-groups, etc.) can see the device. Our primary SSID (eduroam) has a username@domain

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] securew2 onboarding server maintenance

2020-01-29 Thread Michael Davis
Yes. On 1/29/20 10:31 AM, Hurt,Trenton W. wrote: Hey are other securew2 edu’s getting server maintenance messages for the onboarding url? Servers are currently down for maintenance. Public pages are still available, and all servers will be back online shortly. We apologize for any

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-14 Thread Michael Davis
Do you run CPSEC on your APs?   I've heard that non-CPSEC AP connections can contend with the controller cluster heatbeats and cause disconnect. On 1/14/20 3:37 PM, Miller, Keith C wrote: Hi Trent, No not related to AirGroup, but we’ve had problems with AirGroup server leaks in the past on

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-10 Thread Michael Davis
FWIW, some of the most bizarre issues I've ran into with Aruba APs have been related to: - MTUs on the path - Reassembly of packets - Out of order fragments - LLDP - tx, beacon, basic radio rates Some things to look into if the 5GHz radio drop can be deterministically

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-09 Thread Michael Davis
While not an answer to your request, we are also starting to look into this possibility for the same reasons.  While we only have about 500 515s deployed with WiFi6 extensions disabled, we haven't seen tickets to this extent but we also don't have any greenfield 515-only deployments. We will

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Mail to gmail and yahoo stopped working after IOS 13

2019-11-13 Thread Michael Davis
Have the clients upgraded further ?  We saw widespread mail issues with IOS 13.0 and 13.1 but all resolved after 13.2, that we were experiencing.. On 11/13/19 4:23 PM, Christina Klam wrote: All, Has anyone experienced this issue and have a solution? With IOS 13, people are no longer able to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Clearpass /AD /Palo fw

2019-11-06 Thread Michael Davis
What PanOS version?  We saw one case where the palo was delivering fragments in reverse order which wasn't technically incorrect, but some devices didn't like it. On 11/5/19 6:32 PM, Hurt,Trenton W. wrote: Hello Any folks using clearpass for radius auth against AD with a palo fw in

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Wi-Gi 6 APs

2019-10-09 Thread Michael Davis
We currently have the Wi-Fi 6 extensions disabled because of the Intel Driver issues (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/54799/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking.html) We've been notifying clients and were updating drivers until instructed to just turn off Wi-Fi 6.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi failures due to eduroam profiles

2019-09-20 Thread Michael Davis
We onboard EAP-TLS to eduroam.  I'm not following this progression of events. On 9/20/19 3:47 PM, Aaron Abitia wrote: Hello all, Aaron from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo here... We just went all eduroam and turned off our primary branded dot1x SSID, which featured Aruba Clearpass EAP-TLS

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Chromecast on Residence Hall Network

2018-09-05 Thread Michael Davis
Just curious at what scale you're seeing the devices not appearing on clients' list? We run clearpass so it never was a concern, but I just checked and we're seeing about 250 each chromecast, roku, AppleTV, and fire stick devices. On 9/4/18 10:04 PM, Adam Forsyth wrote: Does anyone have a

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wall plate APs and shared wall plates?

2018-08-30 Thread Michael Davis
The aruba AP-303H has keystone knockout provisions on an optional extension mounting kit.   ap-303h-mntw On 8/30/18 10:56 AM, Hales, David wrote: We’re looking at retrofitting a dorm for per room WAPs using some wall plate installed APs.  The issue we’re looking at is that the current drop

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Locating forgotten WiFi auth enabled systems

2018-07-18 Thread Michael Davis
I threw in the towel and started adding the MACs to our controller blacklist to allow the APs to reject them at that level.  Not as clean as you're suggesting, but diminishing returns.. thanks mike On 7/18/18 10:38 AM, John Kristoff wrote: Friends, Over time there is some non-negligible

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Fwd: Your eduroam semi-annual report

2018-07-06 Thread Michael Davis
We're just about to complete our first year with eduroam as primary and our reports definitely show the growth and success rates climb.  We tried the first year with CAT onboarding and struggled somewhat.  We're hoping our second year along with a commercial onboarding package will increase

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam CAT Tool questioin

2018-05-11 Thread Michael Davis
There is a CAT users email list that might be helpful (https://lists.geant.org/sympa/subscribe/cat-users) You wouldn't happen to be using a wildcard cert would you?  I believe Windows has issues with them. On 5/11/18 4:01 PM, Schwartz, Roger J wrote: Tony, Reading the documentation and

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Xbox 360 connection issues?

2017-11-30 Thread Michael Davis
And just to throw out another thing to check, we've had APs that work fine for most system but won't connect Xbox or PlayStation consoles, not allowing DHCP to pass.  The AP gets rebooted (AP215,AP225) and the consoles connect and work fine afterwards..   We've seen this on ArubaOS 6.5.4.2

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Radius certificate length vs. onboarding opinions

2017-10-30 Thread Michael Davis
We're on Option 3, first time this Semester so we haven't gone through an update yet. (We use the eduroam CAT application) Android before v7.1 have a known issue not being able to have 2 certificates at once. Any iOS will have a warning that it hasn't seen that certificate before, but it

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi Request for University Conference event

2017-09-27 Thread Michael Davis
We currently do something similar as Bruce.  Normal Self-registration and sponsored registration using clearpass guest, but large and/or multi-day events can get a PSK SSID assigned if given ample time and planning. On 9/27/17 8:07 AM, Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations) wrote: Our process

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FTE's for Wireless

2017-09-27 Thread Michael Davis
It might be difficult to correlate any information you get because of the diversity of operations.  I'll try to use your scope for our ops: We have 3200 APs, one wireless engineer for: large plan reviews, Tier 3 level support, Controller/AP config/monitoring/maintenance, lifecycle

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba OS 6.5.X

2017-09-22 Thread Michael Davis
We've been chasing bugs all the way down the 6.5 release chain, from Airgroup bugs, to APs crashing.  We then started the semester with an emergency upgrade to 6.5.3.2 when the first wave of early student arrivals started triggering bug 159797 (stm crashes) .   We are enjoying our 303H's and

Campus Wireless in Married or Family Student housing

2017-09-15 Thread Michael Davis
I was wondering if anyone had policies or thoughts on wireless service in Married/Family student housing?   We've had an informal policy of not providing it and treating the units as "apartments" where the residents can purchase and install their own residential wifi.  The thought process (as

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems?

2017-08-27 Thread Michael Davis
e Michael Dickson Network Engineer Information Technology University of Massachusetts Amherst 413-545-9639 michael.dick...@umass.edu <mailto:michael.dick...@umass.edu> PGP: 0x16777D39 On Aug 26, 2017, at 3:18 PM, Michael Davis <da...@udel.edu <mailto:da...@udel.edu>> wrote: Fi

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems?

2017-08-26 Thread Michael Davis
First Semester supporting mDNS in production with Aruba Clearpass Airgroup. Almost every Epson XP series printer is complaining of duplicate IP addresses which of course is not the case.  Anyone see anything similar? There are a few older web searches about Epson's requiring a static IP, which

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

2017-08-15 Thread Michael Davis
Blacklist MAC, Notify Eduroam to inform home institution, inform local Help Desk in case they get a call. Works for DMCA letters too. On 8/15/17 10:57 AM, Ian Lyons wrote: What is the process if X user (EduRoam) has a lot of malware and is sharing it on your network. But home institution

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EDUROAM PROBLEM RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Any Stetson University Network Folks on the List? Live problem in progress

2017-08-14 Thread Michael Davis
Have you gotten on to the eduroam.us site for your iDP and looked through the logs to see if anything stands out? On 8/14/17 11:12 AM, Lee H Badman wrote: I’ll throw this out there for anyone who may be familiar with similar- all users from one school are getting this Aug14

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] New Crazy Wireless Devices

2017-08-01 Thread Michael Davis
We're just starting to see some of the early groups start showing up on campus. The early trends seem to be Amazon Echo/Dots and Google Home systems, among the ever growing trend of Smart TVs. The most interesting new device to show up so far as been a Ring Doorbell system. thanks mike On

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam AUP question

2017-07-18 Thread Michael Davis
ontact helpd...@york.edu <mailto:helpd...@york.edu> for technical assistance.* The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Michael Davis <

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam AUP question

2017-07-14 Thread Michael Davis
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Google Chromecast Provisioning Issue

2017-07-14 Thread Michael Davis
This isn't the behavior I've seen by the iOS versions of Google Home. Do you have an iOS device to verify behavior? It may be something in the Android version of Google Home only. Does the Chromecast setup complete though, even though the final SSID switch of the controlling phone does not?

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam AUP question

2017-07-14 Thread Michael Davis
In the AUP itself, it's stated: "No person or party may use the eduroam services without agreeing to this Acceptable Use Policy." I would be curious to see how others are meeting this. We already have thousands of users using eduroam, do we now go back and force them into a Captive portal to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba AP Models - 315 vs 325

2017-05-02 Thread Michael Davis
Some boot info from new Aruba models: AP-315 Model: AP-31x DRAM: 491 MB SF:Detected MX25U3235F with page size 64 kB, total 4 MB Flash: 4 MB NAND: 132 MiB CPU: ARMv7 Processor [512f04d0] revision 0 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d AP-325 Model: