Just to chime in...   I started getting similar reports with Yosemite....
started looking into it... I had previously configured "max-tx-fail 25"
on my ssid profile.     This was to try and force sticky clients from
staying associated to the AP nearest the entry way.    Not sure why - but
appears Yosemite repeatedly hits this threshold when connecting to a
network.   I set this back to the default '0' [unlimited] and my yosemite
macbook is connecting much more reliably.


In particular I would wake up my macbook - or force a disconnect on the
controller.   The macbook would rejoin - auth - then drop after about 15
seconds - rejoin drop again... would repeat this a few times until
stabilizing.    Not sure if Yosemite is doing some form of stress analysis
upon bssid - to dynamically guage when to try and roam vs using static rssi
values / error counts etc... but its definitely doing something
different....

This worked for my local testing with my macbook - I've pushed the change
out - but don't have feedback yet.   So if anyone else with Yosemite issues
has max-tx-fail as a non zero value - if you change it back - let us know
your results.

Travis Schick
UCDavis Network Operations Center



On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Michael Dickson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks all. I believe we determined that Yosemite did not reintroduce
> support for EAP-TTLS (PAP).
>
> We are are dealing with numerous complaints of dropped connections
> too-frequent reauths (in absence of roaming or disconnects).
>
> Mike
>
> Michael Dickson
> Network Analyst
> Information Technology
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> 413.545.9639
>
> On Oct 17, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Turner, Ryan H <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > We don't have a ton of details yet...  We've been fighting Apple
> disconnect issues for a while (unable to find a resolution), but we seem to
> be getting a lot of complaints about disconnects for Yosemite upgrades.
> From our logs, we see a lot of band steering going on for these clients,
> and a lot of roaming.  Any other institutions getting similar complaints?
> >
> > Ryan H Turner
> > Senior Network Engineer
> > The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> > CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
> > +1 919 445 0113 Office
> > +1 919 274 7926 Mobile
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