Wireless Access

We have a network of AP-105 and AP-135's and a 3400 controller with the 6.3.0.1 code on it.  We have 1 802.1x SSID, 1 Captive Portal, 1 Guest and 1 hidden WPA2 SSID for a total of 4 SSIDs on each AP.

 

We just started a full blow iPad 1-to-1 implementation and have roughtly 500 devices on at any given time.  Of those, 400ish are iPads.  Of those 400 iPads we have had an issue with about 10-15 devices simply NOT connecting to the wireless.  The majority of our iPads are the iPad 2's.  And the majority of them work fine.  Whe it was 1 or 2 I figured they were just bum iPads... it happens.  But with this many I'm starting to wonder.

Here's what I know...

 

They are iPad 2 16GB WiFI only models.
They are brand new, out of the box.
They seem to connect to non-password protected WiFi fine EXCEPT for our captive portal.  The guest network is no problem, but the 802.1x and the WPA2 are a no go.  You tap the SSID, put in your username and password, it presents the certificate and then boom... it just spins and nothing happens.

I have stared at the log while I have tried to log in to the wireless and nothign shows up at all.  If I attach to the guest network, it shows up and logs it fine.

 

I am kind of at a loss.

 

Any help, fellow AirHeads?

THANKS!

#3400

You have a choice:

 

1.  Open a Support case

2.  Open a support case and subject yourself to questions from everyone here.

Ok then... so much for community help, I suppose.  I was trying to see if it was an iPad issue or an Aruba issue but shall I take your response to mean it must be an Aruba issue?

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@bsarte wrote:

Ok then... so much for community help, I suppose.  I was trying to see if it was an iPad issue or an Aruba issue but shall I take your response to mean it must be an Aruba issue?

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Community help, but we need more details.  We have quite a few locations where iPads work just fine on Aruba.  Here are some questions:

 

- Did this ever work?

- Did anything change recently?

- Does it work at some times per day but not others?

 

Not sure if you tried these things :

- But you could turn on logging level debugging user-debug <device mac > - this will allow to see where it may give you an idea why it is failing
- do a show auth-tracebuf | include <device Mac> - you can see the authentication process
- you can try resetting the network settings on the iPad , settings>general>reset>reset network settings
- are all these iPads using the same OS ?
- make sure you are not running out of IPs
- take a look at your radius server to see if there's any event logs regarding these devices

Note: make sure that when you are done troubleshooting you turn off debug

So... ironically, we were out of IP addresses.

We had just created 4 subnets for the wireless devices, in order to cut down on chatter.  Turned out -- our 500 wireless devices were taking up 90% of them on average.  I added a new range and VOILA the few that did not work, worked!

 

Thank you for helping me think "outside the wireless" a little.

 

No TAC case needed!