Yu,

What type of change did you make to the F5¹s we are seeing a similar
issues with are Cisco wireless and F5 and LDAP authentications

Tony Juarez, CCNP Wireless
Network Engineer II
IT Services

773-702-5592 (Office)
773-230-7923 (Cell)





On 8/27/14, 2:15 PM, "Wang, Yu" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Where are all your user accounts hosted? What kind of user database that
>serves the wireless system? Do you have a rough number of how many
>concurrent users at peak time?
>
>We had peak time wireless authentication failure issues in the past
>Spring semester. We did performance tests in the summer and found out it
>was the backend (F5 + LDAP). We did improvements in the summer and we
>have not seen the issue in the first three days of Fall semester.
>Yesterday's wireless usage set a new record with over 32k unique users
>and over 15k concurrent users.
>
>We use Aruba wireless with 802.1X, WPA2-Ent, PEAP, MSCHAPv2 + freeradius
>+ F5 + ldap. It's different than yours but from the error you mentioned,
>it's likely the backend was congested.
>
>
>
>Yu Wang
>____________________________
>Network Architect
>Information Technology Services
>The Florida State University
>850-645-6810
>[email protected]
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric T. Barnett
>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:12 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Authentication failures at peak times (Cisco)
>
>We've got a relatively small deployment compared to many on this list,
>but we've run into a problem we just can't put our finger on. We're using
>5508s and ISE as a RADIUS server and we're having HUGE latencies on
>WPA2-Enterprise PEAP authentication. There's times when almost no one can
>authenticate. What's really weird is that the controllers show "AAA
>Authentication Error" when this happens even though the username and
>password is correct. None of the devices seem distressed and there's no
>network problems we can see. Anyone ever seen this before or have any
>ideas how to troubleshoot? TAC so far has been not incredibly useful but
>they have only been on the case for a day or so now. I can hear my users
>sharpening the pitchforks...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Eric Barnett
>Wireless Administrator
>Information and Technology Services
>Arkansas State University
>870 680 4243
>
>**********
>Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent
>Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
>
>**********
>Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent
>Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group 
discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Reply via email to