WPA-RADIUS Linksys WAP54G Losing Certificates

12 Feb 2005 7:47 PM

asosatterdw

This is an intermittent issue, hence my going to the user community vs.
Linksys, Dell, or Microsoft. My company is testing WPA-RADIUS with the
Linksys WAP54G in about 15 locations right now. The issue that comes
up most frequently is that a user can gain access to the network
(wirelessly) in a number of locations, but when they return to the
corporate office (where we have two APs) I'm forced to restart both the
AP and the Laptop in order for them to gain access to the network. Any
ideas?

The second issue has somewhat gone away for now, but we're about to
roll this out company-wide and I want to see if anyone else is
experiencing it: I install the certificate from the CA, it shows up in
the MMC when I go looking for it, but doesn't show up in TCP/IP
properties when I look there. The user has problems accessing the
network and I need to reinstall the certificate.

Thanks!

Danny

P.S. Linksys WAP54G, Dell D600, and Windows XP Pro are the common
components.

13 Feb 2005 2:06 AM

Airhead

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"asosatterdw" <dannysatter***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This is an intermittent issue, hence my going to the user community
vs.
> Linksys, Dell, or Microsoft. My company is testing WPA-RADIUS with
the
> Linksys WAP54G in about 15 locations right now. The issue that
comes
> up most frequently is that a user can gain access to the network
> (wirelessly) in a number of locations, but when they return to the
> corporate office (where we have two APs) I'm forced to restart both
the
> AP and the Laptop in order for them to gain access to the network.
Any
> ideas?

Is it consistently the same people having the problem?
Is there anything in common, hardware, drivers, OS service packs for
those having the problem?
A guess is that the MAC is still considered logged on, thus creating
a local relogin problem.
A reset of the local AP after it receives the MAC may be resetting the
MAC in the
Radius Server.........This is theory only, but its the only thing I
can think of where a reboot
of the AP after a login attempt might change the issue.

> The second issue has somewhat gone away for now, but we're about to
> roll this out company-wide and I want to see if anyone else is
> experiencing it: I install the certificate from the CA, it shows up
in
> the MMC when I go looking for it, but doesn't show up in TCP/IP
> properties when I look there. The user has problems accessing the
> network and I need to reinstall the certificate.

Not a clue. By the way, why did a business go with a residential
consumer product
like the wap54g.

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> P.S. Linksys WAP54G, Dell D600, and Windows XP Pro are the common
> components.
>

13 Feb 2005 2:34 PM

asosatterdw

Airhead wrote:

> Not a clue. By the way, why did a business go with a residential
> consumer product
> like the wap54g.
>

Our branches rarely have more than two or three users at a time on the
wireless AP. The advantage of going with a higher end unit didn't
justify the cost.

13 Feb 2005 9:08 AM

None

what RADIUS/Client WiFi software you using

On 12 Feb 2005 11:47:43 -0800, "asosatterdw"
<dannysatter***@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>This is an intermittent issue, hence my going to the user community vs.
>Linksys, Dell, or Microsoft. My company is testing WPA-RADIUS with the
>Linksys WAP54G in about 15 locations right now. The issue that comes
>up most frequently is that a user can gain access to the network
>(wirelessly) in a number of locations, but when they return to the
>corporate office (where we have two APs) I'm forced to restart both the
>AP and the Laptop in order for them to gain access to the network. Any
>ideas?
>
>The second issue has somewhat gone away for now, but we're about to
>roll this out company-wide and I want to see if anyone else is
>experiencing it: I install the certificate from the CA, it shows up in
>the MMC when I go looking for it, but doesn't show up in TCP/IP
>properties when I look there. The user has problems accessing the
>network and I need to reinstall the certificate.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Danny
>
>P.S. Linksys WAP54G, Dell D600, and Windows XP Pro are the common
>components.

13 Feb 2005 2:40 PM

asosatterdw

Windows 2003, XP SP2, latest firmware for AP. All of the clients have
latest BIOS updates, windows updates, and wireless adapter firmware as
well.