Authentication Issues with Radius

[ccie_ma]

Hi
I can see loads of authentication issues for the SSID which is configured for Radius authentication.

A lot of same clients that report failed aunthentication later report successful authentication. Anyone else experiencing this ?

Thanks,

Mariam

[Philip D'Ath]

No. What does your RADIUS server log report for the failed authentication attempts?

[ccie_ma]

Thanks for your response. I do not have access to Radius server log. But will propose this to the team who owns it. So in a typical environment we expect to see 0% authentication issues and 0% DHCP issues unlike association issues which can be present just because the client tried to connect two APs at the same time and then chose one ?

[Karsten Iwen]

The authentication issues should have a quite small number but are not typically 0%. The authentication exchange could fail because of roaming away, packet loss, or other problems while authenticating.

[ccie_ma]

Thanks @Karsten Iwen for your response. If the client roams away, I expect it to log the error in Association stage not in any of the subsequent stages. Is that not right ?

[Karsten Iwen · Accepted solution]

Typically yes, but with successfully association at the cell edge, the multi-packet EAP-exchange with larger payload has a quite high likelihood to also fail.