Re: spurious cpi report of mass AP disassociation

2017-09-15 Thread Earl Barfield
t will be evident from the Join Time. If the AP rebooted, then it will be evident from the AP Up Time. If neither, then you had a false alarm from Prime. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Int

Re: Radius Transaction Times

2017-05-08 Thread Earl Barfield
uld fail out and the WLC would go on to the next. Wifi was unusable for upwards of five or ten minutes at the top of each hour. Natives were gathering at the door with pitchforks and knives. We were scared. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute

Aruba controller loading

2017-03-10 Thread Earl Barfield
higher-ed installation with about 5000 APs and peak simultaneous user counts right about 30,000. Thanks. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech

Re: Helpdesk Troubleshooting of Wireless Issues,>

2017-03-02 Thread Earl Barfield
client or anything like that, just concentrating on the infrastructure pieces. This way we at least get a helpdesk ticket with the users correct IP address, mac address, etc. from which to start an investigation. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia

Re: Cisco 8540s, and 8.3.102 Code

2016-09-21 Thread Earl Barfield
lation. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech.edu ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list ca

Re: Cisco 8540s, and 8.3.102 Code

2016-09-20 Thread Earl Barfield
e were seeing beacons from both radios. Cisco had us disable FRA and now they've asked us to disable 11k Assisted Roaming Prediction Optimization. In your environment, do you have 11k and Assisted Roaming Prediction Optimization enabled when you observed this problem? -- Earl Barfield -- Ac

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

2016-04-11 Thread Earl Barfield
sing Cisco AP3702Es right now but we're anxious to take a look at the upcoming AP3802Es that should allow us to use fewer APs to but the same number of 5GHz antennas serving a room. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Re: Recent Radius Meltdowns

2016-03-10 Thread Earl Barfield
no buffer).. 0 Radius Accounting Messages Stats Total Acct Req sent(allocated).. 0 Total Acct Resp rcvd(freed). 0 Total Acct Req Pkts Dropped(no buffer).. 0 -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Geor

Re: Naming conventions for WLAN devices

2016-02-03 Thread Earl Barfield
and stopped donating :-) ). We have official and static building numbers that have proven reliable and non-changing. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edu

Re: Measuring RADIUS Auths

2015-10-19 Thread Earl Barfield
other institutions or you will be off by quite a bit. Apples-to-apples, etc. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech.edu ** Participatio

Re: Cisco WLC RADIUS Packet ID Bug

2015-09-27 Thread Earl Barfield
s Stats Total Acct Req (allocated) sent. 0 Total Acct Resp (Freed) rcvd 0 Total Acct Req Pkts Dropped (no buffer)..... 0 -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 303

Re: Cisco WLC RADIUS Packet ID Bug

2015-09-25 Thread Earl Barfield
ther bugs it may or may not have, this outweighs them all for us. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic & Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech.edu ** Participation and subs

Re: WIRELESS-LAN Digest - 24 Apr 2014 to 25 Apr 2014 (#2014-88)

2014-04-28 Thread Earl Barfield
. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech.edu ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can

Re: Horizontal AP mounting options

2013-10-25 Thread Earl Barfield
in with the access points and all the other junk mounted up there: smoke detectors, security cameras, motion detectors, fire alarms, etc., etc. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edu

Re: WIRELESS-LAN - Cisco APs losing CAPWAP session

2012-02-01 Thread Earl Barfield
figuring it out by sniffing the radius queries and responses and meticulously matching them up and Aha!!. You really remember the problems that leave skid marks across your backside! :-) -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Size of LWAPP management subnet

2010-08-30 Thread Earl Barfield
grinds to a halt. I can't really get any usable advice from Cisco because their engineers tend to fall over when I tell them how many APs I'm running in a single broadcast domain. :-) Am I the only one still out here on this limb? -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba vs HP vs Meraki

2010-04-12 Thread Earl Barfield
sticking out like some sort of medieval flail! -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech.edu ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

2009-08-28 Thread Earl Barfield
.something to 5.2.193.0. Uncheck Enable DHCP Proxy under controller-advanced-DHCP and see if that fixes it. It worked for me. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Aironet 1140 vs 1250

2009-02-17 Thread Earl Barfield
that they are similar, or just guessing at AP placement. BTW, there is a pricing promotion on the ten-pack of AP1142s through the end of April. I think it's 10% off on the APs but the power injectors are not discounted so its a little less than 10% off overall. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Aironet 1140 vs 1250

2009-02-17 Thread Earl Barfield
some sore of basic autonomous beacon-only mode in order to do site surveys. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech.edu ** Participation and subscription

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Aironet 1140 vs 1250

2009-02-17 Thread Earl Barfield
My Cisco sales guy just told me that Autonomous IOS firmware for the AP1140 should be out sometime in April. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: earl.barfi...@oit.gatech.edue...@gatech.edu

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question on layer 3 size

2008-04-25 Thread Earl Barfield
the broadcast traffic and would fail to answer arp requests in a timely manner sometimes up to 90 seconds. As you can imagine, this caused all sorts of problems. I've got the Cisco bugid here somewhere if anyone needs it. This was fixed in rev 4.2.112.0. No problems since. -- Earl Barfield

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade 1200 to lwapp

2007-03-01 Thread Earl Barfield
was associated to when he lost connectivity. With the Wireless Lan Controllers, you only have to trunk the multiple client-traffic VLANs to the controllers. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: [EMAIL

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Resetting LWAPP Device to Defaults

2007-02-20 Thread Earl Barfield
it back to IOS and remove the file(s) from flash: You can also remove the Manufacturer Installed Cert (MIC), which then requires you to generate self-signed cert and then configure the WLC to accept that self-signed cert. Been there, done that. :-) -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Tech

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access

2006-04-03 Thread Earl Barfield
on our Cisco APs with no security and broadcast SSID. This traffic is bridged at layer two to a local WISP that provides DHCP, DNS, AUTHn, AUTHz, etc. The guest users end up in the ISP's address space, not ours. I think GSU is even using the same WISP that we do. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic

Re: WIRELESS-LAN Digest [Another RADIUS Question (802.1x)]

2006-03-24 Thread Earl Barfield
have verified 3 other TAC SRs that have the exact same issue with the exact same wireless adapters. So my confidence level is high for this fix. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Technologies / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet

Re: WIRELESS-LAN [Another RADIUS Question (802.1x)]

2006-03-23 Thread Earl Barfield
it, but Apple's refused to associate. If you turned off WEP, it worked, which made it appear to be a WEP problem. Anyway, IOS 12.3(7) fixed the problem. We're happily running 12.3(7)JA2 now. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Technologies / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AirWave inquiry

2005-12-12 Thread Earl Barfield
it. Add to it the fact that Airwave engineers are so responsive to our requests and needs and that's why we dropped the big bucks for a monster server and another license to run the package. Ask me in a few weeks if the new server is noticeable faster. Crossing my fingers :-) -- Earl

Outdoor wireless coverage on campus?

2005-06-29 Thread Earl Barfield
it will be difficult to run conduit? - What are the odds that Facilities would allow us to mount to light poles? Who will do site surveys? - Definitely want to get these done before leaves fall -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Technologies / Information Technology Georgia

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Open Access- not sponsored guest access

2005-06-06 Thread Earl Barfield
on campus can choose to purchase access passes in bulk and include them as one of the immenities to conference attendees, etc. I believe Georgia State University, also here in Atlanta, has a similar arrangement with the same ISP. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Technologies / Information

Re: WIRELESS-LAN Digest - Physical network security on ethernet cable

2004-10-15 Thread Earl Barfield
in. How about a (fake or real) security camera that watches the AP? -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Technologies / Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Participation and subscription

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Find Dead Access-Points

2004-08-25 Thread Earl Barfield
just walk around and look for them? If the AP is up and working, you might try using Airmagnet or Netstumbler to search for the wireless MAC address and go to where the signal is strongest. -- Earl Barfield -- Academic Research Technologies / Information Technology Georgia Institute