Assurance - Wireless - Association - Challenge failure ?

thomasthomsen
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Assurance - Wireless - Association - Challenge failure ?

So I have a site where we see a LOT of Challange failures.

But What do these cover ?

 

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When looking at the "performance" of some of the clients that apparently has this issue, I mostly (only?) see "4-way handshake timeout" as an issue.

 

Is the 4-way handshake considered Association ? ( Since it is after the EAP exchange should this not be an Authentication problem ?)

Or am I missing something that the client does (or in this case does not, or fails) on association ?

Or could this be because the client had a valid authentication, and then at some point timed out, perhaps during "transit" where it might be in "sleepmode", and it then tried to associate to a new AP, and use that timedout session again ?

 

 

Another strange thing (different question).

Why do I see clients failures on 802.11r when it is not enabled on the SSID ?

That is just too strange / spooky for me, unless the clients are trying it, even though it is not enabled.

 

Do anyone know ?

 

Thanks

Thomas

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RaphaelL
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Might be far fetch but can you capture the beacons to confirm that 802.11r is not enabled ?

thomasthomsen
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I have not done that yet ( but of course I will ), what Im saying is that its disabled on the config page of the dashboard 🙂

thomasthomsen
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Just checked , there is no "Mobility domain" in the beacons, and I think that means no 802.11r

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