We’ve had some success with this problem on our WPA2-Enterprise SSID by 
configuring the laptop to always trust the wireless certificate.   This setting 
can be found in your keychain.  Look for your wireless cert in keychain access 
and set the trust setting to “Always Trust”.  This isn’t the greatest solution, 
but we’ve found it to solve the problem in some cases.


Kevin

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Kevin Grattan
Network Engineer, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT)

2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
NUIT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/>



From: <Wang>, Yu <ywan...@fsu.edu<mailto:ywan...@fsu.edu>>
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
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Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 10:09 AM
To: 
"WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>" 
<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple devices dropping on WPA2-PSK and WPA2-Ent 
SSIDs Aruba 6.3

I echo what Ryan described here. Ryan alerted me of this issue and after 
changing user logging level to notification on our Aruba controllers, we got 
quite a number of “Ptk Challenge Failed” in our logs. We have both OKC and 
Validate PMKID enabled and have not changed any of the settings as I saw Aruba 
engineers gave conflict statements.


Yu Wang
____________________________
Network Architect
Information Technology Services
The Florida State University
850-645-6810
yu.w...@fsu.edu<mailto:yu.w...@fsu.edu>

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:29 AM
To: 
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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple devices dropping on WPA2-PSK and WPA2-Ent SSIDs 
Aruba 6.3

We’ve had complaints for a while that would come in sporadically, but didn’t 
pay them much mind as it was always difficult to reproduce.  The complaint was 
with Apple devices (normally OSX) that would just drop connectivity and then 
reestablish moments later.  People would complain that our secure SSID (our 
primary EAP-TLS WPA2-Ent SSID) was not stable.  It was always from Apple users. 
 Recently, however, one of our employees with an Apple running OSX (Yosemite) 
started to have the problem routinely on our PSK SSID.  When I turned on 
debugging in the logs, the following message was logged every time he dropped:

Sep 5 10:53:48 :501105:  <NOTI> |AP 
RB_House_016@172.28.65.99<mailto:RB_House_016@172.28.65.99> stm|  Deauth from 
sta: 48:d7:05:bf:28:e5: AP 172.28.65.99-00:1a:1e:52:dd:51-RB_House_016 Reason 
Ptk Challenge Failed

When I did a google the Ptk Challenge failed, it turned up an Airheads forum 
that said that since OSX devices don’t support Opportunistic Key Caching, 
having this enabled on your controllers could cause drops on these devices when 
they roam from AP to AP.  We disabled it on both out UNC-Secure and UNC-PSK 
SSIDs, and yet the user is still having disconnects, and we still see this 
message when his device drops.  We actually see a LOT of these messages in the 
logs now that I have turned on the proper notification logging, indicating that 
this error message is either a red herring, or a lot more prevalent in our 
environment that we had hoped for.

I plan on opening a case with Aruba, but before I beat my head against a wall 
for the next couple of hours with a support engineer, have any of you seen this 
problem and tackled it?

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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