Aruba Central

Hi!

In Aruba Central I have configured 3 SSIDs. I know that if you have different clusters with same SSIDs, you should specify MDID number for each SSID (in fast roaming 802.11r settings), but if I have one cluster with multiple SSIDs, should I leave default value in MDID field which is 1 for all SSIDs.

Also recently for one of the offices, which had one SSID and worked well, I have enabled 802.1r. The next day I got call that users can't connect or dropping off. In Central I saw very high authentication errors. I've disabled 802.1r and after that it worked just fine.

Thanks!

Quite a few clients, depending on their driver level, have problems with 802.11r.

IMHO I would only enable 802.11r if I had mostly Apple clients, because many of those do not support OKC.  The majority of non-apple clients support OKC and that works fine and doesn't need to be configured.

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Original Message:
Sent: Oct 20, 2022 03:20 AM
From: Robert Akopov
Subject: Fast Roaming

Hi!

In Aruba Central I have configured 3 SSIDs. I know that if you have different clusters with same SSIDs, you should specify MDID number for each SSID (in fast roaming 802.11r settings), but if I have one cluster with multiple SSIDs, should I leave default value in MDID field which is 1 for all SSIDs.

Also recently for one of the offices, which had one SSID and worked well, I have enabled 802.1r. The next day I got call that users can't connect or dropping off. In Central I saw very high authentication errors. I've disabled 802.1r and after that it worked just fine.

Thanks!