Can we get the TAC case number so we can read the details of the case (I'm 
pretty sure we have the same problem; my Cisco tech guy can get access to the 
case so I can look at it).

Thanks.

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On Oct 1, 2014, at 6:18 PM, "Britton Anderson" 
<blanders...@alaska.edu<mailto:blanders...@alaska.edu>> wrote:

We've had the same issues regardless of Mac or Windows clients. We tracked it 
down with TAC on our controllers (running either 7.6.122.9 or 7.6.130.0) as an 
issue with both WPA&WPA2 enabled along side client band select/load balancing. 
Band select and load balancing are obviously big ones, but disabling WPA and 
leaving only WPA2-AES layer 2 security has remediated the problem for us.

-Britton



Britton Anderson<mailto:blanders...@alaska.edu> |        Senior Network 
Communications Specialist |      University of 
Alaska<http://www.alaska.edu/oit> |       907.450.8250


On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Ashfield, Matt (NBCC) 
<matt.ashfi...@nbcc.ca<mailto:matt.ashfi...@nbcc.ca>> wrote:
Hello

We are seeing some intermittent issues with some of our student computers (a 
lot of HPs, but some others) whereby they will be working away, well connected, 
and suddenly get the yellow exclamation mark in on their wifi connection in the 
taskbar and lose connectivity. Sometimes they can get back on, sometimes they 
have to reboot. We have tried updating drivers and that has not fixed the 
problem, although in one case we forced the client to 2.4ghz range thru 
settings in the adapter and that seemed to fix the probem in some cases.

The issue is very odd. It appears almost to be location or AP specific although 
reports are hard to nail down. Anecdotal reports suggest more difficulty with 
non-3702i APs (we have some 3500's and 3600's APs as well) The network is an 
EAP-TLS network with client side certs.

As with most student wifi issues, it’s nearly impossible to get real debugging 
results, but one thing we have noticed is when the student is having issues, 
we’ve seen where the controller is showing them as  associated and 
authenticated, but the client machine seems to show that it has an IP gateway 
and mask but for some reason there’s no gateway entry in the ARP table of the 
client. Release/Renew does nothing. Ping from the gateway does nothing. Very 
odd issue. DHCP is provisioned by a central Microsoft DHCP server (ie, not the 
cisco device) and we’re using 1 hour lease times. Some students we've seen it 
happen to are a result of their laptop going asleep.

I personally tend to lean towards this being a client driver issue. Problem is, 
it's nearly impossible to have every student with up to date drivers in this 
BYOD type world we operate in. At the end of the day, we have students who need 
wifi access and cannot get on and blaming IT. This is a small subset of users, 
but an issue nonetheless.

I have heard rumblings of various wlc  options/settings that may be causing 
issues and we do have the following list below. Turning one off at a time is an 
option I suppose, but hoping that someone may have some better recommendations 
here.
- Client Band Select enabled
- Client Load Balancing enabled
- User Idle Timeout set to 5400 Seconds (this is under Controller/General)
- CCKM enabled
- Session Timeout 36000 (this is under WLAN/Advanced)
- DHCP Address Assignment Required is checked

Any advice/info is appreciated.

Thanks

Matt

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