RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

2009-10-28 Thread Anthony Croome
Update for my uni's problem.

Our engineers are 100% convinced it's a MAC OS issue.  We are not sure when the 
problem was introduced.

When it is working we see the discover, offer, ack, in the DHCP daemon logs.
Then at a random, intermittent time the DHCP daemon will decide to stop 
listening to dhcp packets being received on wireless, it logs the discover but 
not the offer. 
Wireshark is showing the offers being received but the DHCP daemon doesn't log 
them.
There is no difference in the contents of the DHCP offer when it is working vs 
when it isn't.

We are going to escalate it to Apple, as there isn't anything else we can see 
to try.

Anthony






-Original Message-
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman
Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 10:16 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

Has anyone gotten any approved  suggestions for how to deal with these Apple 
issues from Cisco, beyond just trying things that seem to sometimes help?

It is frustrating how the friendly and trouble-free Apple devices tend to be 
the least friendly and most troubling devices on the WLAN. A little bit of 
techno-irony to this:)

-Lee

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Sessler 
[j...@scrippscollege.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:56 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

In 6.0, the code for world-mode didn't make it into the controller, but I 
believe it's in the AP's IOS commands, so it can be toggled but takes a little 
more effort.


Jeff

 Garry Peirce  10/15/09 2:16 PM 
Perhaps I was erroneous in equating the two through a Cisco doc referencing
DTPC to world-mode.
'When you enable Dynamic Transmit Power Control (DTPC), access points add
channel and transmit power information to beacons. (On access points that
run Cisco IOS software, this feature is called world mode.)'

DTPC does appear to be CCX related, so it is likely irrelevant with regard
to the mentioned Apple/Broadcom bug.

Running 6.0.182,
'config 802.11a world-mode' is not an available option.
'config 802.11a dtpc' is.
'show 802.11a' will show the status of DTPC.

I'll inquire w/Cisco.


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 -Original Message-
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 [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Grover
 Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:51 PM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

 It's under:

 show 802.11a(or b)

 -Matt

 Bob Richman wrote:
  So, how about the show command that displays the current setting?
 
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 [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Grover
  Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:21 PM
  To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
  Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs
 
  Actually, if you are talking about specifically world-mode it's
 under:
 
  CLI:  config 802.11a world-mode
  orconfig 802.11b world-mode
 
  -Matt
 


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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

2009-10-28 Thread Peter P Morrissey
Well good luck with that, escalating it Apple I mean. : )
Pete M.

-Original Message-
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[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Croome
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:26 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

Update for my uni's problem.

Our engineers are 100% convinced it's a MAC OS issue.  We are not sure when the 
problem was introduced.

When it is working we see the discover, offer, ack, in the DHCP daemon logs.
Then at a random, intermittent time the DHCP daemon will decide to stop 
listening to dhcp packets being received on wireless, it logs the discover but 
not the offer. 
Wireshark is showing the offers being received but the DHCP daemon doesn't log 
them.
There is no difference in the contents of the DHCP offer when it is working vs 
when it isn't.

We are going to escalate it to Apple, as there isn't anything else we can see 
to try.

Anthony






-Original Message-
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman
Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 10:16 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

Has anyone gotten any approved  suggestions for how to deal with these Apple 
issues from Cisco, beyond just trying things that seem to sometimes help?

It is frustrating how the friendly and trouble-free Apple devices tend to be 
the least friendly and most troubling devices on the WLAN. A little bit of 
techno-irony to this:)

-Lee

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Sessler 
[j...@scrippscollege.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:56 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

In 6.0, the code for world-mode didn't make it into the controller, but I 
believe it's in the AP's IOS commands, so it can be toggled but takes a little 
more effort.


Jeff

 Garry Peirce  10/15/09 2:16 PM 
Perhaps I was erroneous in equating the two through a Cisco doc referencing
DTPC to world-mode.
'When you enable Dynamic Transmit Power Control (DTPC), access points add
channel and transmit power information to beacons. (On access points that
run Cisco IOS software, this feature is called world mode.)'

DTPC does appear to be CCX related, so it is likely irrelevant with regard
to the mentioned Apple/Broadcom bug.

Running 6.0.182,
'config 802.11a world-mode' is not an available option.
'config 802.11a dtpc' is.
'show 802.11a' will show the status of DTPC.

I'll inquire w/Cisco.


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 -Original Message-
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
 [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Grover
 Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:51 PM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs

 It's under:

 show 802.11a(or b)

 -Matt

 Bob Richman wrote:
  So, how about the show command that displays the current setting?
 
  -Original Message-
  From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
 [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Grover
  Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:21 PM
  To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
  Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-assigned IP on Macs
 
  Actually, if you are talking about specifically world-mode it's
 under:
 
  CLI:  config 802.11a world-mode
  orconfig 802.11b world-mode
 
  -Matt
 


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Cisco WLC DHCP Proxy

2009-10-28 Thread Oliver Gorwits
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Hi folks,

Lee H Badman wrote:
 do you have the DHCP proxy function enabled?

So far we've had the DHCP proxy function disabled on our Cisco
wireless controllers. This is the global option, it's not
configurable per WLAN/Dynamic Interface (that I can tell, at least).

Lee mentioning this in the other thread intrigued me. What are
people's experiences and opinions of this feature? Are there
benefits to either having DHCP proxy off, or on?

regards,
oliver.
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Oxford University Computing Services
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