Gary,
Assuming you are doing "enterprise" (802.1X) authentication with your
WPA setup, Apple Bug ID 5560437 identifies an issue where the Mac
*sometimes* does not respond to EAP identity requests until the
wireless interface is bounced. It is my understanding that the
authentication client is *sometimes* not properly running after
startup and bouncing the interface "resets" the authentication client
(and is the current workaround according to Apple). Our experience has
improved with 10.5.2, but we are still experiencing some problems and
the bug is not resolved as my last bug update from Apple on 2/16.
-Jason
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Network Engineering Group, ITS
University of Iowa
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On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Landau, Gary wrote:
We're seeing issues with Macs running the new Leopard (v10.5) OS.
They would lose connectivity to our Cisco LWAPP (WPA authentication)
wireless network. The only way to resolve it has been to disable
and re-enable the wireless NICs. Apple came out with an OS patch (I
think it is v10.5.2) that is supposed to correct some wireless
problems, but I don't know yet if this loss of connectivity problem
is one that got corrected.
-Gary
Gary Landau, CISSP, GSNA, CCNP
Director of Infrastructure Technology
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