Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-23 Thread Frans Panken 
Guess what’s under the hood of many commercial RADIUS platforms (e.g., 
Clearpass)… indeed: FreeRadius 1.0 …
-Frans


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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?


Yeah- thanks, Phillipe. I knew I wasn't phrasing that quite right, typed it as 
I was flying out the door earlier.​



-Lee






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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 5:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Lee,

Radiator is not open source (you can buy support) but it works more smoothly on 
Unix (you can operate it on Windows).

Philippe


On Nov 16, 2016, at 4:34 PM, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:
Thanks, Phillipe. For a number of reasons we’re trying to steer away from open 
source on this.

Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w 
its.syr.edu<http://its.syr.edu>
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu<http://syr.edu>

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:58 PM
To: 
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Lee,

Not speaking from using NPS but from having to help Institutions using NPS:

It is a very “stiff” environment, and Microsoft does not want to listen to the 
eduroam community’s requests (not just US, but worldwide)

No REALM stripping
No Server Status (that one is killing us. We have to implement all kinds of 
timers to make sure that servers are responding…when the standard has a built 
in mechanism)
No support for RadSec ever mentioned.

If I were a large University with in house expertise I would do FreeRADIUS 3.0 
or Radiator (or more NAC oriented solutions if you need that)

Philippe

Philippe Hanset, CEO
www.anyroam.net<http://www.anyroam.net>
www.eduroam.us<http://www.eduroam.us>
GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C




On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:

Hello to the awesome group.

We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS 
solution for our very, very large WLAN’s 802.1X authentication. We also have 
Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at ISE a 
bit. We’re weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many of you 
know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade through the 
fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more “feature rich”. For 
major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and since everybody “is a 
software company!” licensing can be ugly. I’m not slamming those who find value 
in the many interesting features that the likes of ISE and Clearpass offer, but 
I also can’t help but be drawn to Microsoft NPS when I think about going 
forward with simple RADIUS.

Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn’t 
particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We *may* have 
found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows server 
environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran admins.

All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a large 
secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets, endorsements, 
horror stories, tales of success, etc?


(Any vendor reps lurking- no, I’m not open to hearing about other RADIUS 
solutions. Please, no calls or emails)


Kind regards-

Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w 
its.syr.edu<http://its.syr.edu/>
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu<http://syr.edu/>



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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-18 Thread Trenton Hurt 
For IPv4, the client’s IP address is available via the Framed-IP-Address
attribute in Interim-Update Accounting-Request packets. For IPv6, client IP
addresses are instead available via Framed-IPv6-Address attributes. They
are made available by NASes that implement DHCP snooping functionality.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:48 AM Wang, Yu <ywan...@fsu.edu> wrote:

> Edward,
>
>
>
> NPS servers (radius) do not have clients’ IP information as the whole
> 802.1X authentication process happens before a client can have an IP
> address. Once a client is successfully authenticated, radius’ job is done.
> The client is then assigned to a network and acquires an IP through DHCP.
> You can get a client’s IP from Aruba controllers or DHCP servers (client’s
> MAC address from NPS).
>
>
>
> Yu
>
>
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Edward Ip
>
>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 17, 2016 2:38 PM
> *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
>
> *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?
>
>
>
> We have being using Microsoft NPS in a cluster as Radius for 80.21X for a
> while now. Our normal concurrent client load is about 12,000 users.
>
>
>
> Monitoring is now done via Airwave, specifically using the Clarity
> feature. In the pass, we used Solarwinds to query our Aruba controllers for
> the statistics and then graphing it in Solarwinds.
>
>
>
> We are not doing anything fancy with the NPS servers. My network architect
> wants to be able to query the AD network and set up network policies (like
> bandwidth control and app control) using Bluecoat PacketShaper and the
> Authentication and Authorization Agent (BCAAA) with User Awareness feature.
> However, the NPS servers do not update our ad directory with regards to
> what IP address the wireless client is currently using. So this feature is
> not useable on our wireless client (works great on wired domain clients).
> Investigating if we can use ClearPass to give the bluecoat the required
> information.
>
>
>
> *Edward Ip*
>
> *Algonquin College* | 1385 Woodroffe Avenue | Room C316 | Ottawa | Ontario
> | K2G 1V8 | Canada
>
> algonquincollege.com
>
>
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [
> mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] *On Behalf Of *Lee H Badman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:40 AM
> *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?
>
>
>
> Hello to the awesome group.
>
>
>
> We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the
> RADIUS solution for our very, very large WLAN’s 802.1X authentication. We
> also have Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked
> around at ISE a bit. We’re weighing replacing our aging ACS environment,
> but as many of you know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you
> have to wade through the fog of NAC systems because everything is getting
> ever more “feature rich”. For major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC
> now, and since everybody “is a software company!” licensing can be ugly.
> I’m not slamming those who find value in the many interesting features that
> the likes of ISE and Clearpass offer, but I also can’t help but be drawn to
> Microsoft NPS when I think about going forward with simple RADIUS.
>
>
>
> Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn’t
> particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We **may**
> have found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows
> server environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran
> admins.
>
>
>
> All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a
> large secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets,
> endorsements, horror stories, tales of success, etc?
>
>
>
>
>
> (Any vendor reps lurking- no, I’m not open to hearing about other RADIUS
> solutions. Please, no calls or emails)
>
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards-
>
>
>
> *Lee Badman* | CWNE #200 | Network Architect
>
> Information Technology Services
> 206 Machinery Hall
> 120 Smith Drive
> Syracuse, New York 13244
>
> *t* 315.443.3003  * f* 315.443.4325   *e* lhbad...@syr.edu *w* its.syr.edu
>
>
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Lee H Badman 
Yeah- thanks, Phillipe. I knew I wasn't phrasing that quite right, typed it as 
I was flying out the door earlier.?


-Lee




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<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Philippe Hanset 
<phan...@anyroam.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 5:26 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Lee,

Radiator is not open source (you can buy support) but it works more smoothly on 
Unix (you can operate it on Windows).

Philippe


On Nov 16, 2016, at 4:34 PM, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:

Thanks, Phillipe. For a number of reasons we're trying to steer away from open 
source on this.

Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w 
its.syr.edu<http://its.syr.edu>
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu<http://syr.edu>

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:58 PM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Lee,

Not speaking from using NPS but from having to help Institutions using NPS:

It is a very "stiff" environment, and Microsoft does not want to listen to the 
eduroam community's requests (not just US, but worldwide)

No REALM stripping
No Server Status (that one is killing us. We have to implement all kinds of 
timers to make sure that servers are responding...when the standard has a built 
in mechanism)
No support for RadSec ever mentioned.

If I were a large University with in house expertise I would do FreeRADIUS 3.0 
or Radiator (or more NAC oriented solutions if you need that)

Philippe

Philippe Hanset, CEO
www.anyroam.net<http://www.anyroam.net>
www.eduroam.us<http://www.eduroam.us>
GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C





On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:

Hello to the awesome group.

We've used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS 
solution for our very, very large WLAN's 802.1X authentication. We also have 
Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at ISE a 
bit. We're weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many of you 
know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade through the 
fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more "feature rich". For 
major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and since everybody "is a 
software company!" licensing can be ugly. I'm not slamming those who find value 
in the many interesting features that the likes of ISE and Clearpass offer, but 
I also can't help but be drawn to Microsoft NPS when I think about going 
forward with simple RADIUS.

Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn't 
particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We *may* have 
found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows server 
environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran admins.

All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a large 
secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets, endorsements, 
horror stories, tales of success, etc?


(Any vendor reps lurking- no, I'm not open to hearing about other RADIUS 
solutions. Please, no calls or emails)


Kind regards-

Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w 
its.syr.edu<http://its.syr.edu/>
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu<http://syr.edu/>



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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Philippe Hanset 
Lee,

Radiator is not open source (you can buy support) but it works more smoothly on 
Unix (you can operate it on Windows).

Philippe


> On Nov 16, 2016, at 4:34 PM, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Phillipe. For a number of reasons we’re trying to steer away from 
> open source on this.
>  
> Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect 
> 
> Information Technology Services
> 206 Machinery Hall
> 120 Smith Drive
> Syracuse, New York 13244
> 
> t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu w its.syr.edu
> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
> syr.edu
> 
>  
> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
> [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:58 PM
> To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?
>  
> Lee,
>  
> Not speaking from using NPS but from having to help Institutions using NPS:
>  
> It is a very “stiff” environment, and Microsoft does not want to listen to 
> the eduroam community’s requests (not just US, but worldwide)
>  
> No REALM stripping
> No Server Status (that one is killing us. We have to implement all kinds of 
> timers to make sure that servers are responding…when the standard has a built 
> in mechanism)
> No support for RadSec ever mentioned.
>  
> If I were a large University with in house expertise I would do FreeRADIUS 
> 3.0 or Radiator (or more NAC oriented solutions if you need that)
>  
> Philippe
>  
> Philippe Hanset, CEO
> www.anyroam.net
> www.eduroam.us
> GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> wrote:
>  
> Hello to the awesome group.
>  
> We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS 
> solution for our very, very large WLAN’s 802.1X authentication. We also have 
> Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at ISE a 
> bit. We’re weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many of you 
> know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade through 
> the fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more “feature 
> rich”. For major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and since 
> everybody “is a software company!” licensing can be ugly. I’m not slamming 
> those who find value in the many interesting features that the likes of ISE 
> and Clearpass offer, but I also can’t help but be drawn to Microsoft NPS when 
> I think about going forward with simple RADIUS.
>  
> Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn’t 
> particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We *may* have 
> found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows server 
> environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran admins. 
>  
> All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a large 
> secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets, 
> endorsements, horror stories, tales of success, etc? 
>  
>  
> (Any vendor reps lurking- no, I’m not open to hearing about other RADIUS 
> solutions. Please, no calls or emails)
>  
>  
> Kind regards-
>  
> Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect 
> 
> Information Technology Services
> 206 Machinery Hall
> 120 Smith Drive
> Syracuse, New York 13244
> t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu w its.syr.edu
> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
> syr.edu
>  
>  
>  
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Lee H Badman 
Thanks, Phillipe. For a number of reasons we’re trying to steer away from open 
source on this.

Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w 
its.syr.edu
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:58 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Lee,

Not speaking from using NPS but from having to help Institutions using NPS:

It is a very “stiff” environment, and Microsoft does not want to listen to the 
eduroam community’s requests (not just US, but worldwide)

No REALM stripping
No Server Status (that one is killing us. We have to implement all kinds of 
timers to make sure that servers are responding…when the standard has a built 
in mechanism)
No support for RadSec ever mentioned.

If I were a large University with in house expertise I would do FreeRADIUS 3.0 
or Radiator (or more NAC oriented solutions if you need that)

Philippe

Philippe Hanset, CEO
www.anyroam.net<http://www.anyroam.net>
www.eduroam.us<http://www.eduroam.us>
GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C





On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:

Hello to the awesome group.

We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS 
solution for our very, very large WLAN’s 802.1X authentication. We also have 
Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at ISE a 
bit. We’re weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many of you 
know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade through the 
fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more “feature rich”. For 
major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and since everybody “is a 
software company!” licensing can be ugly. I’m not slamming those who find value 
in the many interesting features that the likes of ISE and Clearpass offer, but 
I also can’t help but be drawn to Microsoft NPS when I think about going 
forward with simple RADIUS.

Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn’t 
particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We *may* have 
found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows server 
environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran admins.

All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a large 
secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets, endorsements, 
horror stories, tales of success, etc?


(Any vendor reps lurking- no, I’m not open to hearing about other RADIUS 
solutions. Please, no calls or emails)


Kind regards-

Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w 
its.syr.edu<http://its.syr.edu/>
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu<http://syr.edu/>



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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Jeremy Gibbs 
I only use NPS for Cisco RADIUS auth.  Otherwise, all of our authentication
hits Extreme NAC (uses FreeRADIUS as a backend).  I dislike NPS very much.




*--Jeremy L. Gibbs*
Sr. Network Engineer
Utica College IITS

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Mike Atkins <matk...@nd.edu> wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> We are using Microsoft Event log view for NPS/security and are also
> exporting security logs daily to another system that we built to massage
> the information in order to get stats and summarize errors.  We have
> Microsoft System Center that I believe can be expanded to do additional
> reporting and alerting but we have been unsuccessful in getting the other
> groups to implement it.
>
>
>
> I used perfmon for a very short period when I was initially looking at way
> to graph rates over a 24 hour period and was quickly discouraged.  I did
> not have a working baseline to compare to and I could not find a published
> spec.  Our identity group opened a ticket with Microsoft and never got a
> solid # on rates.  I believe the response was “depends on your server
> resources.”  I was looking at success and failure rates but the problem at
> the time was NPS just stopped responding to the supplicant.  I did not see
> a counter for something like that.  Maybe I did not look hard enough and
> there is a way to calculate it.  I should probably take another look if you
> find it useful.
>
>
>
> A typical troubleshooting scenario was “everyone in this room was
> disconnected!”  I ask the typical question, “did everyone get disconnected
> at the same time.”  Response is “yes!”  I ask “so everyone got disconnected
> at the very same minute?”  Response, “well no, but during the meeting most
> of us got disconnected.”  I reply “most not everyone?.?.?…..”  J  You
> know how it goes.  In the end I had to look at information far enough back
> that it is/was very difficult to use perfmon.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Mike Atkins *
>
> Network Engineer
>
> Office of Information Technology
>
> University of Notre Dame
>
>
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Bruce Boardman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:49 PM
>
> *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?
>
>
>
> ​Mike
>
> Regarding the Troubleshooting and debug challenges with NPS are you
> exporting the MS events to a log collector or using the server's native
> event viewer? How useful have you found the PerfMon RADIUS metrics?
>
>
>
>
>
> |Bruce Boardman, Network Engineer, Syracuse University -  315 412-4156
>
> --
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <
> WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Mike Atkins <
> matk...@nd.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:44 PM
> *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?
>
>
>
> Lee,
>
> We use Microsoft NPS for radius on dot1x wireless (ND-secure & eduroam.)
> Troubleshooting and getting debug information has been very difficult.
> Finding a deployment guide on expected performance/load is also impossible
> to find.  I think configuration is absolutely key.  My impression is either
> it works great or it does not.
>
>
>
> Dennis,
>
> I think we are doing the realm stripping you are talking about using NPS.
> Our identity management group has two policies configured for eduroam.  The
> first policy says identity @nd.edu authenticate PEAP requests on the
> local server.  The second policy says “@” forward to the two eduroam.us
> “servers.”  There are a couple other policies for off campus users that get
> forwarded from eduroam.us servers.  Maybe not what you are talking about
> but just thought I would chime in just in case.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Mike Atkins *
>
> Network Engineer
>
> Office of Information Technology
>
> University of Notre Dame
>
> Phone: 574-631-7210
>
>
>
>
>
>    .__o
>
>- _-\_<,
>
>---  (*)/'(*)
>
>
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Lee H Badman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:40 AM
> *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?
>
>
>
> Hello to the awesome group.
>
>
>
> We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the
> RADIUS soluti

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Atkins 
Bruce,

We are using Microsoft Event log view for NPS/security and are also
exporting security logs daily to another system that we built to massage
the information in order to get stats and summarize errors.  We have
Microsoft System Center that I believe can be expanded to do additional
reporting and alerting but we have been unsuccessful in getting the other
groups to implement it.



I used perfmon for a very short period when I was initially looking at way
to graph rates over a 24 hour period and was quickly discouraged.  I did
not have a working baseline to compare to and I could not find a published
spec.  Our identity group opened a ticket with Microsoft and never got a
solid # on rates.  I believe the response was “depends on your server
resources.”  I was looking at success and failure rates but the problem at
the time was NPS just stopped responding to the supplicant.  I did not see
a counter for something like that.  Maybe I did not look hard enough and
there is a way to calculate it.  I should probably take another look if you
find it useful.



A typical troubleshooting scenario was “everyone in this room was
disconnected!”  I ask the typical question, “did everyone get disconnected
at the same time.”  Response is “yes!”  I ask “so everyone got disconnected
at the very same minute?”  Response, “well no, but during the meeting most
of us got disconnected.”  I reply “most not everyone?.?.?…..”  J  You know
how it goes.  In the end I had to look at information far enough back that
it is/was very difficult to use perfmon.







*Mike Atkins *

Network Engineer

Office of Information Technology

University of Notre Dame



*From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Bruce Boardman
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:49 PM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?



​Mike

Regarding the Troubleshooting and debug challenges with NPS are you
exporting the MS events to a log collector or using the server's native
event viewer? How useful have you found the PerfMon RADIUS metrics?





|Bruce Boardman, Network Engineer, Syracuse University -  315 412-4156

--

*From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Mike Atkins <matk...@nd.edu
>
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:44 PM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?



Lee,

We use Microsoft NPS for radius on dot1x wireless (ND-secure & eduroam.)
Troubleshooting and getting debug information has been very difficult.
Finding a deployment guide on expected performance/load is also impossible
to find.  I think configuration is absolutely key.  My impression is either
it works great or it does not.



Dennis,

I think we are doing the realm stripping you are talking about using NPS.
Our identity management group has two policies configured for eduroam.  The
first policy says identity @nd.edu authenticate PEAP requests on the local
server.  The second policy says “@” forward to the two eduroam.us
“servers.”  There are a couple other policies for off campus users that get
forwarded from eduroam.us servers.  Maybe not what you are talking about
but just thought I would chime in just in case.











*Mike Atkins *

Network Engineer

Office of Information Technology

University of Notre Dame

Phone: 574-631-7210





   .__o

   - _-\_<,

   ---  (*)/'(*)



*From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Lee H Badman
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:40 AM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?



Hello to the awesome group.



We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS
solution for our very, very large WLAN’s 802.1X authentication. We also
have Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at
ISE a bit. We’re weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many
of you know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade
through the fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more
“feature rich”. For major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and
since everybody “is a software company!” licensing can be ugly. I’m not
slamming those who find value in the many interesting features that the
likes of ISE and Clearpass offer, but I also can’t help but be drawn to
Microsoft NPS when I think about going forward with simple RADIUS.



Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn’t
particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We **may**
have found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows
server environment st

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Bruce Boardman 
?Mike

Regarding the Troubleshooting and debug challenges with NPS are you exporting 
the MS events to a log collector or using the server's native event viewer? How 
useful have you found the PerfMon RADIUS metrics?



|Bruce Boardman, Network Engineer, Syracuse University -  315 412-4156

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Mike Atkins <matk...@nd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:44 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Lee,
We use Microsoft NPS for radius on dot1x wireless (ND-secure & eduroam.) 
Troubleshooting and getting debug information has been very difficult.  Finding 
a deployment guide on expected performance/load is also impossible to find.  I 
think configuration is absolutely key.  My impression is either it works great 
or it does not.

Dennis,
I think we are doing the realm stripping you are talking about using NPS.  Our 
identity management group has two policies configured for eduroam.  The first 
policy says identity @nd.edu<http://nd.edu> authenticate PEAP requests on the 
local server.  The second policy says "@" forward to the two 
eduroam.us<http://eduroam.us> "servers."  There are a couple other policies for 
off campus users that get forwarded from eduroam.us<http://eduroam.us> servers. 
 Maybe not what you are talking about but just thought I would chime in just in 
case.





Mike Atkins
Network Engineer
Office of Information Technology
University of Notre Dame
Phone: 574-631-7210


   .__o
   - _-\_<,
   ---  (*)/'(*)

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>]
 On Behalf Of Lee H Badman
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:40 AM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Hello to the awesome group.

We've used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS 
solution for our very, very large WLAN's 802.1X authentication. We also have 
Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at ISE a 
bit. We're weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many of you 
know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade through the 
fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more "feature rich". For 
major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and since everybody "is a 
software company!" licensing can be ugly. I'm not slamming those who find value 
in the many interesting features that the likes of ISE and Clearpass offer, but 
I also can't help but be drawn to Microsoft NPS when I think about going 
forward with simple RADIUS.

Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn't 
particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We *may* have 
found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows server 
environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran admins.

All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a large 
secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets, endorsements, 
horror stories, tales of success, etc?


(Any vendor reps lurking- no, I'm not open to hearing about other RADIUS 
solutions. Please, no calls or emails)


Kind regards-

Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w 
its.syr.edu<http://its.syr.edu>
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu<http://syr.edu>



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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Atkins 
Lee,

We use Microsoft NPS for radius on dot1x wireless (ND-secure & eduroam.)
Troubleshooting and getting debug information has been very difficult.
Finding a deployment guide on expected performance/load is also impossible
to find.  I think configuration is absolutely key.  My impression is either
it works great or it does not.



Dennis,

I think we are doing the realm stripping you are talking about using NPS.
Our identity management group has two policies configured for eduroam.  The
first policy says identity @nd.edu authenticate PEAP requests on the local
server.  The second policy says “@” forward to the two eduroam.us
“servers.”  There are a couple other policies for off campus users that get
forwarded from eduroam.us servers.  Maybe not what you are talking about
but just thought I would chime in just in case.











*Mike Atkins *

Network Engineer

Office of Information Technology

University of Notre Dame

Phone: 574-631-7210





   .__o

   - _-\_<,

   ---  (*)/'(*)



*From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Lee H Badman
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:40 AM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?



Hello to the awesome group.



We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS
solution for our very, very large WLAN’s 802.1X authentication. We also
have Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at
ISE a bit. We’re weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many
of you know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade
through the fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more
“feature rich”. For major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and
since everybody “is a software company!” licensing can be ugly. I’m not
slamming those who find value in the many interesting features that the
likes of ISE and Clearpass offer, but I also can’t help but be drawn to
Microsoft NPS when I think about going forward with simple RADIUS.



Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn’t
particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We **may**
have found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows
server environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran
admins.



All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a
large secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets,
endorsements, horror stories, tales of success, etc?





(Any vendor reps lurking- no, I’m not open to hearing about other RADIUS
solutions. Please, no calls or emails)





Kind regards-



*Lee Badman* | CWNE #200 | Network Architect

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244

*t* 315.443.3003  * f* 315.443.4325   *e* lhbad...@syr.edu *w* its.syr.edu


*SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY*syr.edu







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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

2016-11-16 Thread Philippe Hanset 
Lee,

Not speaking from using NPS but from having to help Institutions using NPS:

It is a very “stiff” environment, and Microsoft does not want to listen to the 
eduroam community’s requests (not just US, but worldwide)

No REALM stripping
No Server Status (that one is killing us. We have to implement all kinds of 
timers to make sure that servers are responding…when the standard has a built 
in mechanism)
No support for RadSec ever mentioned.

If I were a large University with in house expertise I would do FreeRADIUS 3.0 
or Radiator (or more NAC oriented solutions if you need that)

Philippe

Philippe Hanset, CEO
www.anyroam.net
www.eduroam.us
GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C






> On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Lee H Badman  wrote:
> 
> Hello to the awesome group.
>  
> We’ve used Cisco ACS with general satisfaction for many years as the RADIUS 
> solution for our very, very large WLAN’s 802.1X authentication. We also have 
> Aruba Clearpass in-house for guest wireless, and have poked around at ISE a 
> bit. We’re weighing replacing our aging ACS environment, but as many of you 
> know times are changing. When you shop for RADIUS, you have to wade through 
> the fog of NAC systems because everything is getting ever more “feature 
> rich”. For major vendors, RADIUS is just a slice of NAC now, and since 
> everybody “is a software company!” licensing can be ugly. I’m not slamming 
> those who find value in the many interesting features that the likes of ISE 
> and Clearpass offer, but I also can’t help but be drawn to Microsoft NPS when 
> I think about going forward with simple RADIUS.
>  
> Way back when, we avoided Microsoft in this role as the reporting wasn’t 
> particularly strong when it came time to troubleshoot clients. We *may* have 
> found relief to this through Splunk, and also enjoy a robust Windows server 
> environment staffed by absolutely brilliant MS-minded veteran admins. 
>  
> All that being said- is anyone using NPS as their RADIUS solution for a large 
> secure WLAN environment? Can you share likes, dislikes, regrets, 
> endorsements, horror stories, tales of success, etc? 
>  
>  
> (Any vendor reps lurking- no, I’m not open to hearing about other RADIUS 
> solutions. Please, no calls or emails)
>  
>  
> Kind regards-
>  
> Lee Badman | CWNE #200 | Network Architect 
> 
> Information Technology Services
> 206 Machinery Hall
> 120 Smith Drive
> Syracuse, New York 13244
> t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu 
>  w its.syr.edu 
> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
> syr.edu 
>  
>  
>  
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