topic What type of security is in Wireless

Apple devices change SSID when roming between AP

tobiassandberg — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:37:58 GMT

Hi!

We have severel Apple devices that change SSID when they roaming between accesspoints. If we do the same test with Android we don´t have any problems. The Wlan they roam from is Local Switching Central authentication. The Wlan they roam to is both Local Switching Central authentication and Central Switching Central authentication.

Does anyone know about this problem.

We have severel Apple devices

Leo Laohoo — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:10:24 GMT

We have severel Apple devices that change SSID when they roaming between accesspoints.

Maybe the Apple devices know the different SSIDs. What happens if you manually delete the other SSIDs from the Apple clients?

Hi,I have a silly question

Benoit Loriaux — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:58:46 GMT

Hi,

I have a silly question but why would they need multiple SSID to roam to ? (that's a design aspect)

This kind of problem happened a lot at work because people would start clicking around SSIDs on their iPad and iPhone. Then some windows laptop users did the same...

In my case they wanted to sneak out with their work laptop to connect to the guest wireless which has less restriction for web-browsing.

So what was happening is as the SSID compete on a given AP the laptop would bounce from one to another when roaming.
Solution was to tell the user to stick to one SSID network and remove the other SSID (forget the network on iPhone and iPad)

Ideally you want to implement Cisco ISE and play around with profiling and vlans but this is a LONG story.

Hope that helps,
Ben

When we delete the other SSID

tobiassandberg — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 06:27:36 GMT

When we delete the other SSID the device disconnect from the network and search for next AP. After 3-4 seconds of searching it connect to the network on the new AP. As we can see this is bad roaming but we don´t got a solution.

What type of security is

Benoit Loriaux — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 21:37:59 GMT

What type of security is implemented ?

Are you using flexconnect groups and fast roaming ?

(Interesting reading : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202831 )