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Re: Macs and 802..1x
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Allmaker)
Thu Sep 8 22:31:40 2011
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:29:51 -0400
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From: Peter Allmaker <Peter.Allmaker@mcla.edu>
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Thanks for the reassurance. From our Help Desk manager a bit more detail:
From our standpoint at the Help Desk, we encourage them to connect without
doing any manual configuration. If this fails, we usually wipe out the
802.1x settings and set them manually.
I've gotten in the mode of walking them through resetting their password
in order to make sure the correct one is being used. I wouldn't be
surprised if the OS is holding onto bad credentials.
I'd be interested in looking into scripting options - in an ideal world
one that clears all credentials first and resets 802.1x settings correctly
As he says, we would love to see scripts you may have developed.
Thanks!
p
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Peter Allmaker
Assoc. Dean of Information Technology
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
413-662-5510
Resnet Forum <RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on Thursday, September 08, 2011 at
9:15 PM -0400 wrote:
>It isn't you. We have lots of Macs at our school. During opening, we had
>hundreds of problems with connecting them to our 802.1x network, but few
>issues with Windows machines. There are some workarounds but no real
>solutions that we've found.
>
>How are you configuring them? Are you letting them auto-config
>themselves, are you manually setting the 802.1x settings or are you using
>Xpressconnect?
>
>Overall most of the problems on our wireless network are Mac related.
>When we call Apple we are told that it is "the intended behavior."
>
>Pete M.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Allmaker
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>Subject: Macs and 802..1x
>
>We are having a new for us influx of Mac laptops this fall and we are
>experiencing a difficult time getting them to hold their configuration
>when initially putting them on our 802.1x authenticated Cisco/Airespace
>WLAN. Two or three installations are not uncommon before it 'takes'. No
>problems with the Windows 7 machines nor with XP. Is there an issue with
>the latest OSX or is it our unfamiliarity with the platform?
>
>pa
>
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>Peter Allmaker
>Assoc. Dean of Information Technology
>Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
>413-662-5510
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