Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all the interesting insight and troubleshooting attempts.

My colleague is still struggling with this issue and the only benefit thus far 
is that his android is affected. So thankfully we have a good test candidate. 
He has been working with TAC and I don't know what debug information he has 
seen, but I do know that TAC "believes everything is okay and it should work"! 
Clearly it is not. He cannot associate on an Open SSID, or a Secured SSID with 
WPA2 AES/PSK.

We are not running IPv6, so this was globally disabled already. And the most 
recent attempt was that we had that changed was Allow AAA Override to become 
unchecked. This did not resolve the issue either.

While I can tolerate a person or two having issues, it is the unknown of how 
many more are out there who will have issues. We had plans to begin moving 
buildings using WiSM1 controllers over to the new WiSM2 controllers and I am 
very reluctant to do that now.

I suspect/hope this case will be escalated soon and If we find a solution I 
will share it with everyone here. In the meantime if you have other ideas, 
please let me know!

Thanks!

Daniel Foerst
Assistant Director, Networks & Security
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064

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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[[email protected]] on behalf of Jithin Kesavan 
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Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 11:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WiSM2 Association issues

Hi Daniel,

We here at UNSW have been experiencing similar issues for the past few weeks, 
ever since we upgraded WLC code from 7.2 to 7.5.

Basically, what we have found is that this is affecting only Android version 
4.1.2 e.g.: Samsung S3 or Galaxy Note 2 etc.
Samsung S4 or Galaxy Note 3 running Android 4.2.2 is not affected in our case.

We have a mix of different SSIDs. The main one runs 802.1x/WPA2 authenticating 
against a bunch of radius servers. We have other SSIDs using Web authentication 
and Pre-shared keys.
We even tried on our test SSIDs with open access.
Irrespective of the security setting on the WLAN, the device attempts to 
connect, fails and eventually comes up with "Authentication error occurred".

We have a test WiSM2 running 7.2 code. As soon as we move the AP to the test 
WiSM2, the device can connect without any issues.

Last week we raised a TAC request and ran some debug outputs which showed the 
following:


IPv6_Msg_Task: Sep 24 12:01:38.564: 90:18:7c:a8:6b:de Link Local address 
fe80::9218:7cff:fea8:6bde updated to mscb. Not Advancing pem state.Current 
state: mscb in apfMsMmInitial mobility state and client state APF_MS_STATE_A

*SNMPTask: Sep 24 12:08:04.220: 90:18:7c:a8:6b:de Central Switch = TRUE

*SNMPTask: Sep 24 12:08:04.220: 90:18:7c:a8:6b:de Central Switch = TRUE

TAC engineer suggested disabling IPv6 globally on the controllers which at the 
time fixed the issue; only for the issue to resurface after a few days.

The only thing is I don't see anything in particular from the debug client <MAC 
addr> command on the controller.

I have re-opened the TAC case, and am waiting for their response.

One thing to note is that Android 4.2.2 devices were experiencing similar 
issues when it was first reported to us, but there was a software update for 
4.2 which came sometime in the last month or so, after which the problem seems 
to have disappeared.

Cheers
Jithin


Jithin Kesavan
Senior Network Engineer
UNSW IT

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
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On 1/10/13 7:05 AM, "Foerst, Daniel P." <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:

Hi all,

We are experiencing an odd issue as of late. A client with an Android device 
(HTC One) is able to associate to a wireless access point joined to a Cisco 
WiSM1 controller that is running 7.0.235.3 code, but when the AP is joined to a 
WiSM2 with 7.5.0 code it is unable to join. The most I have heard that it 
attempts to connect until ultimately it gives up. If the AP is migrated back to 
a WiSM1 the issue clears and the client is able to associate, receive and IP 
address, and use the network.  The WLAN is an open SSID currently operating 
without any security so we know that isn't interfering.

A TAC case has been opened to investigate this issue, however I wanted to see 
if anyone else has experienced this yet.

Typically I wouldn't give it much thought, but it we have also seen some of our 
student base experience this same issue with a Windows 8 tablet (not sure if it 
was RT or not). Where my colleague and his HTC one is able to move the AP back 
to a WiSM1 and work around the issue, the student doesn't have that luxury as 
all APs in his/her residence hall are 2602e APs and require a WiSM2 controller. 
After experiencing this issue we are hesitant to move other residence halls 
currently operating on WiSM1s to the new WiSM2 controllers.

Thanks much!

Daniel Foerst
Assistant Director, Networks & Security
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064

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