RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba 8.7 issues

2020-12-29 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
sapd_proc_sap_resp: Non-matching response received; dropped. 1 18 != 18, expecting id (,00eb3380,513) Robert Spellman Bates College Information and Library Services On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 9:44 AM Bucklaew, Jerry mailto:j...@buffalo.edu>> wrote: Robert, We had a similar issue and it t

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba 8.7 issues

2020-12-29 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
Robert, We had a similar issue and it turned out to be the Ap’s had communication issues with the controllers and they were constantly re-bootstrapping. The controller showed them down but you could ping them. It was a juniper/backbone thing. But I guess the point is, if the primary or

RE: [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] NAC/authentication implementations

2020-04-13 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We moved to “wired-auth” about 2 years ago. The original goal was to authenticate every wired port and make it more consistent with wireless. It comes down to tracking and accountability for access to our network. A very happy outcome was it basically got rid of all moves/add/changes.

RE: ArubaOS 8.x cluster disconnects

2019-12-06 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
To ALL: We are running 6 7240xm controllers in a cluster with 8.3.0.7 code. We are seeing something similar but not exactly. We are also seeing re-bootstrapping but our “cluster heartbeat” looks fine. What we noticed is after some type of network event where the ap’s temporarily loose

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Your eduroam semi-annual report

2018-07-06 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
Philippe, I like the reports, but as people have pointed out the errors are concerning. It might be good to quantify the errors to unique macs instead of just failures. You have unique users authenticated and then authenticated percentage. But is that the percentage of total request vs

RE: Aruba version 8 (Mobility Master) and AP-115 access points

2018-06-29 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
To ALL: We also are moving to ArubaOS version 8.2.1.1 this summer, but we are a little further along. We have 6,000 access points (as mix of 214,215,314,315,325,324,205h,303h) and 8 7240 controllers. We upgraded to the 7420xm controllers and did a hardware appliance for the mobility

RE: upgrade from 802.11n to 802.11ac

2017-12-06 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We just completed this. As a rough estimate we doubled our density. We were roughly 4,000 SF per access point and we went to around 2,00 SF. Those are of course just rough estimates and the old "you should survey" applies to at least some buildings. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues

RE: Aruba OS 6.5.X

2017-09-22 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We have been on 6.5.2.1 for a couple months now with no “major issues”.We have the 3xx dfs bug and we do see a ton of radar hits. Waiting for the fix release that is due out in another week or two. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems?

2017-08-25 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
To ALL: I think it might be a bit early to report in, our students come back this weekend. This time of year is normally like a "frog in the pot", every day for the next two weeks our counts just keep slowly getting higher and higher. We will see where it ends. We are an aruba shop

Wired authentication

2017-08-11 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Bucklaew, Jerry [mailto:j...@buffalo.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:36 PM Subject: Re: EAP-TLS Lee, I want to state first that I am not, by any means, an expert on all of the authentication standards and protocols. I wa

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

2017-08-11 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
p Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bucklaew, Jerry Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:36 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS Lee, I want to state first that I am not, by any

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

2017-08-10 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS Jerry, Am curious your reasons for TLS, like if anything beyond "it's better". Concern for PEAP being deprecated, etc? Lee -Original Message----- From: Bucklaew, Jerry [j...@buffalo.edu] Received: Thursday

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

2017-08-10 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
To ALL: We currently do mac auth and EAP-PEAP authentication on our wireless network. I am trying to put together a proposal to move to cert based authentication and I was wondering if anyone has a proposal or justification already written as to why you should move to cert based auth?

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

2017-05-02 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
> We use bridge mode for one of the wired Ethernet ports and terminate it > locally. This way a student can plug in to the Ethernet port and get > the wired floor based vlan as the other wired ports on that floor. We did the opposite. We bring both the ap ports and the other wired ports on

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

2017-05-02 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
Joachim, We have 205h and are testing 303h. For the 205h we designed it so the 3 wired Ethernet ports are tunneled back to the controller and put on a central vlan. We have the wired Ethernet ports supporting both 802.1x and mac auth. I don't think you can drop the 3 ethernet ports

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam adoption (and migration process)

2017-04-21 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We are currently moving to eduraom as the primary ssid. We are doing a communication campaign and will retire the old 802.1x ssid at some point. We do have a non802.1x ssid for “other” devices. It is a “start here” ssid that will also configure you for 802.1x. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dorm Wireless Authentication

2017-03-28 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
How do you track them down when they do something bad? From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 10:18 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN]

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dorm Wireless Authentication

2017-03-27 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We have two ssid’s. One a “start here” that will do 802.1x onboarding, guest access and mac registration. That one is all mac auth based. The other is the 802.1x ssid. We onboard about 80% of the devices to 802.1x. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba controller loading

2017-03-10 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
On 03/10/2017 08:58 AM, Earl Barfield wrote: > I know that the Aruba / Hewlett Packard literature says that you can > support 2000 APs on their biggest controller (7240XM). > > Is anyone actually running that many APs per controller in real > production? If not, then how may APs per controller do

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] In room WIFI - second example

2017-02-20 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
Well it normally comes down to "you get what you pay for". A quality solution does cost. We did 205h in every other room and are happy with the outcome. We did every other room to keep cost down while providing good coverage. On 02/20/2017 02:01 PM, Norman Mourtada wrote: > We are actively

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Design question

2017-01-11 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
David, We use 2,500 sq feet per ap for budgetary and planning purposes. It works out pretty close when all is said and done. On 01/10/2017 01:47 PM, Schuette, David wrote: > For budgetary planning and rough expectation for number of APs to install. > > We are currently looking to start

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Large Wireless Deployment Addressing

2016-12-20 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
To ALL, We are currently an Aruba shop. We use a combination of Nat, Vlan pools, large subnets, and airgroup. We break our wireless network up into 3 controller groups that are geographically separate. In each one, On our main ssid's we have a vlan pool of 8 /21 subnets doing 8 to 1

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Clients unable to obtain an IP address via DHCP

2016-12-13 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
You need a trace closer to the client. Most likely the offer is not making it to the client or request is not making it back to the server. Possible causes - 1. packetloss at client side 2. rouge dhcp server On 12/13/2016 02:23 PM, Atanas P Atanasov wrote: > We’re a seeing some odd

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] support of L2 peering devices?

2016-11-30 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
On 11/30/2016 11:20 AM, Tim Tyler wrote: > Tim, > > “subnet based on policy”? I have a pool of 6 vlans of which devices get > randomly assigned to one of the 6 subnets. > How does Airgoup know which subnets the two pairing devices are in? I > thought it required a broadcast to find each >

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 5GHz Channel Width

2016-11-29 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We run 40mhz in 5ghz for all our ap's (around 4,000). We monitor channel utilization and interference but so far it looks fine. Our argument was 40 or 80 and we decided to play it safe and do just 40. > > > Hi All, > > > > I was just reading a blog article that heavily recommends *not* to use

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] edroam as main 802.1x ssid

2016-11-11 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
On 11/10/2016 11:04 PM, Becker, Jason wrote: > We're getting ready to reduce the number of ssid that we have across Campus > and one idea is to use edroam as our main > 802.1x secure ssid. Is anyone else doing this and if so how is it going? > > > We are attempting to get down to two, eduroam

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Per room wireless

2016-11-04 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We just completed half our dorms and did an AP approximately every other room (installed 2,000). We used the "hospitality" ap's so they are mounted on the wall at jack height. We mounted them where ever jacks where, which created some "interesting" designs. We have many on outside walls,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba unattended scheduled upgrade?

2016-09-27 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
On 09/27/2016 03:50 PM, Kitri Waterman wrote: > Hi Brian, > > > > I haven’t seen a firmware upgrade option with scheduling, but you can > definitely firmware upgrades through Airwave. > Upload the firmware to Airwave and then on the device itself, pull down > Device Actions and then select

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] IPv6 issues

2016-09-09 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We have had IPv6 enable on all our wireless for over 5 years now. The only issue we have seen is some gear processes ipv6 packets via cpu instead of at the hardware layer. The most recent issue is we had to move away from ipv6 verify source as it was done at the cpu level so we went to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] About the Guest wireless network and account

2016-09-08 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
We use Aruba clearpass. Our guest can create an account based on their email address or login via their facebook account. On 09/08/2016 02:03 PM, Linchuan Yang wrote: > Dear All > > > > We are doing research for the wireless Guest network. Currently, we create > temp employee account for the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ClearPass and IPv6

2016-07-21 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
On 07/21/2016 04:00 PM, Hector J Rios wrote: > Jerry, > > We actually performed a packet capture to confirm that the accounting record > was making it to ClearPass and it is. It's disappointing to hear that it has > taken them this long to fix it. > > Ok, I have learned the hard way, that it

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ClearPass and IPv6

2016-07-21 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
Yeah, We have been pushing them to get it straightened out for almost a year now. Last I left it there were two pieces. clearpass needs to support ipv6 accounting records, due out in 6.1 The aruba controllers need to send ipv6 accounting records, due out in 6.5 I think Where are you

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba and Bradford

2016-07-20 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
Brian, We are a bradford shop and are migrating to clearpass. We used the bradford for registration or our resnet as well as our wireless gaming network. It worked ok, but my major issues with it were.. 1. Bradford is designed around vlan switching, moving ports from one vlan to the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] student residential routers?

2016-06-24 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
> The 5.0ghz radios have so many more channels now. So is this bandwidth > consumption and efficiency still a major concern > for many of you? I know this was most certainly a critical issue for the > 2.4ghz radios with only 3 channels, but my > stats are showing that 2/3rds of our clients

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11b data rates disabled?

2016-06-20 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
On 06/20/2016 11:50 AM, Todd M. Hall wrote: > Do you have all of the 802.11b data rates disabled? If so, how long have they > been disabled? Did you have many complaints when you disabled them? Were > there > any particular devices that could not connect as a result? > > I'm hoping this

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] How can I integrate Cisco 3702i AP into Aruba ClearPass Solution.

2016-06-06 Thread Bucklaew, Jerry
On 6/3/2016 11:19 AM, Alexandre Adao wrote: > We are in the process to deploy Aruba AP with ClearPass in our campus. Also, > we have a quite few number of Cisco 3702i > APs. Is it possible to integrate those Cisco 3702i AP's with Aruba wirleless > controller and ClearPass? Alex, It depends