Ok, that is what I found and wanted some confirmation I guess.

According to Meru there is no delay in the key exchange and is only delayed by 
code (so probably a few hundred milliseconds)  It is a feature request right 
now.

--
Walt Reynolds
Principal Systems Security Development Engineer Information Technology Central 
Services University of Michigan
(734) 615-9438


> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barber, Matt
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
> 
> Hi Walter,
> 
> This is in the configuration guide, but there doesn’t seem to be any
> configuration available.  It looks like OKC might be on all the time.
> A quick search through the guide shows this as the only place it is mentioned.
> 
> Opportunistic PMK Caching for WPA
> 
> Opportunistic PMK caching allows the controller, acting as the 802.1X
> authenticator, to cache the results of a full 802.1X authentication so
> that if a client roams to any AP associated with that controller, the
> wireless client needs to perform only the 4-way handshake and
> determine new pair-wise transient keys. PMK caching is supported only
> for KDDI phones when using WPA with TKIP and 802.1X authentication.
> The system automatically detects the KDDI phone using the KDDI Vendor
> ID and applies PMK caching if available.
> 
> Matt Barber
> Network Analyst
> Morrisville State College
> 315-684-6053
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues
> Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Reynolds, Walter Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:29 AM
> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN]
> Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
> 
> Many of the commands listed have been for Cisco or Aruba.  Anyone with
> Meru have comments?  We are seeing various problems that have gotten
> much better with Apple updates in addition to a Patch for the Meru
> code.  But still seem to have many general problems with the MACs.  I
> am looking at finding some of these changes but if there is any experience 
> all the better.
> 
> --
> Walt Reynolds
> Principal Systems Security Development Engineer Information Technology
> Central Services University of Michigan
> (734) 615-9438
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Angela K
>> Hollman
>> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:52 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
>> 
>> 
>> I'm running Aruba controllers so I don't know where it would be on
>> Cisco. On Aruba it's just a checkbox under the authentication profile.
>> I'm running 3.3.x and I was running 3.1.x. It was on both versions.
>> 
>> CLI ->
>> aaa authentication dot1x <profile-name> <enter> opp-key-caching
>> 
>> On the GUI, it's under the dot1x advanced settings.
>> 
>> _________________
>> Angela K. Hollman
>> Information Technology Services
>> Network Manager
>> (308)865-8176
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From:        Lee H Badman <[email protected]> To:
>>      [email protected] Date:        01/26/2009 09:28 AM 
>> Subject:
>>      Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues Sent by:
>>      The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> <[email protected]>
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Angela-
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This is the first I’ve heard of OKC… I’m not seeing as either a
>> controller or WLAN-level setting. Where does one find this, and do
>> you know what code versions it goes back to?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Lee
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Lee H. Badman
>> 
>> Wireless/Network Engineer
>> 
>> Information Technology and Services
>> 
>> Syracuse University
>> 
>> 315 443-3003
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> 
>> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:WIRELESS-
>> [email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Angela K Hollman
>> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:01 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Have you also disabled OKC (Opportunistic Key Caching)? This was
>> causing a lot of issues on our campus with sticky laptop AP sessions
>> and so on.
>> 
>> I might try extending our timers a bit. I had not heard of that before.
>> 
>> _________________
>> Angela K. Hollman
>> Information Technology Services
>> Network Manager
>> (308)865-8176
>> 
>> 
>> From:        Lee H Badman <[email protected]> To:
>>      [email protected] Date:        01/23/2009 02:50 PM 
>> Subject:
>>      Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues Sent by:
>>      The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> <[email protected]>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We were told to stretch 'em out even more:
>> 
>> config advanced eap identity-request-timeout 120 config advanced eap
>> identity-request-retries 20 config advanced eap request-timeout 120
>> config advanced eap request-retries 20
>> 
>> but still we see a plethora of Mac-specific issues.
>> 
>> Lee
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:WIRELESS-
>> [email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Rob Brenner
>> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:37 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
>> 
>> The eap settings need to be changed on the cisco wlc's also. For
>> some reason the default is only 1 second. We set ours to 30 seconds.
>> This change improved the logon process for many platforms.
>> 
>> -Rob Brenner
>> -Texas A&M University
>> 
>> (WiSM-slot4-1) >show advanced eap
>> 
>> 
>> EAP-Identity-Request Timeout (seconds)........... 30                   
>>               <-- EAP-Identity-Request Max Retries................. 20
>> EAP Key-Index for Dynamic WEP.................... 0 EAP Max-Login
>> Ignore Identity Response........... enable EAP-Request Timeout
>> (seconds).................... 30                                  <--
>> EAP-Request Max Retries.......................... 20 EAPOL-Key Timeout
>> (seconds)...................... 1 EAPOL-Key Max
>> Retries............................ 2
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:WIRELESS-
>> [email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Emerson Parker
>> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:34 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
>> 
>> Just a little note on Macs and 802.1x.  Last year, I noticed that
>> some MAC laptops needed a small delay between the EAP-success and
>> the beginning of the key exchange.
>> 
>> You can test this theory by implementing a small delay in the Aruba
>> controller. I haven't seen resent issues however and this may be a
>> thing of the past.
>> 
>> aaa authentication dot1x <dot1x_profile> timer wpa-key-period 2000
>> 
>> -Emerson
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:WIRELESS-
>> [email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Urrea, Nick
>> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:36 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
>> 
>> We at UC Hastings are using PEAP-MSChapv2 as our EAP type.
>> I noticed that by default the Mac client will setup an 802.1x
>> profile for our wireless network with PEAP, EAP-TLS, and TTLS.
>> With this setup the Mac client would authenticate every time but
>> only get an IP address half the time. By un-selecting EAP-TLS and
>> TTLS and only having PEAP selected in the 802.1x profile has fixed this 
>> problem.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:WIRELESS-
>> [email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Ben Thompson
>> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:42 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh- Ongoing Connectivity Issues
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> We have a mixed network with a mixture of Cisco fat AP's and Aruba
>> thin AP's and we have found that some Apple Macs are having problems
>> connecting to the Aruba setup. It seems that the authentication
>> periodically fails and I see error messages like these from RADIUS
>> :-
>> 
>> Auth fail logs from FreeRADIUS :-
>> 
>> Thu Jan 22 16:59:44 2009 : Error: TLS Alert write:fatal:bad record
>> mac Thu Jan 22 16:59:44 2009 : Error: rlm_eap: SSL error
>> error:1408F119:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad
>> record mac Thu Jan 22
>> 16:59:44 2009 : Error: SSL: SSL_read failed in a system call (-1),
>> TLS session fails.
>> 
>> 
>> Auth fail reason from IAS :-
>> 
>> Reason-Code = 260 Reason = The message or signature supplied for
>> verification has been altered
>> 
>> 
>> Has anyone else seen anything similar to this?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Ben Thompson
>> 
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