Configuring WPA2 & RADIUS

[robert.portvliet at gmail.com (Robert Portvliet)]

That was going to be my next move, mirror the switchport the AP is plugged
into & take a capture of the auth attempt. (I'll do that tomorrow morning)

Like I said I'm coming into this a bit after the fact & didn't do the
initial setup, but yes the cert is self signed & generated using Microsoft
CA (I'll look into the settings further though), the clients are all Vista
btw.

As far as the network, it's flat with layer 3 routing only in the core
switch, each building is on it's own vlan, but the wireless vlan is the same
no matter what building you are in, as far as AD goes there's only one site,
each building is an OU under that.

I'm more of a Linux\Unix guy so I'm a bit light in the AD end of things, I
think it might be something to do with policy, but according to the systems
engineer you should be getting the same policy no matter where you go.

Thanks much for the help!



On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Tim Mugherini <gbugbear at gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert,
>
> First I would not trust the Radius server logs, grab  a packet dump to
> verify they are not trying to auth as the computer acct (I have seen
> MS IAS not log attempts so even though I have no experience with 2k8
> NPS I would not trust the logs)
>
> Also you mentioned diff buildings, diff subnets? AD sites?
>
> Lastly you mentioned certifcates are you using a self signed on the
> Radius server, MS CA? If MS CA what are your GO settings for the
> Radius and Certs (have seen issues with MS CA and "verification" on XP
> so just a hunch on my part.
>
> Tim
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Robert Portvliet
> <robert.portvliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I'm attempting to troubleshoot an issue with an implementation of WPA2 &
> > RADIUS with certificates (for wireless authentication), it is a somewhat
> > perplexing issue which I am hoping someone on the list may be able to
> > provide some guidance on.
> >
> >  In the building local to the Radius server, the machine will
> authenticate
> > to the Radius server using the machine name without issue, however in the
> > other buildings the same machine (even using the same access point) will
> > never try to pass the machine name to authenticate.. it passes the user
> > name, which works if we allow that method of authentication, but it's not
> > what we're after obviously.
> >
> >  The strange thing is I see no trace in the Radius server log of it even
> > trying the machine name and the policy the machine receives should be the
> > same in each building.
> >
> >   For the Radius server I am using NPS on win2k8. the client machines are
> > Vista (latest patch level), AP's are HP ProCurve, physical media is
> single
> > mode fiber between the buildings.
> >
> >   I came into this a little late in the game, from what I can tell
> > everything seems to be configured correctly, but I'm getting the feeling
> I'm
> > missing something stupid, lol
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> >
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