Mac Best Practices?

[rvandolson]

Hoping I can tack on some technical specifics here, but curious if anyone has any best practices for Mac clients on Cisco WLC-based networks.  We have a mix of 35xx-37xx AP's with 5508 WLC's and it seems that the MacBook Airs (maybe some Pros too?) tend to have the most issues.  Random disassociations/reassociations, etc.  Perhaps some (much?) of this is on the client side, but the issues seem to go away if Apple's AirPort Extremes are in use as the AP (could also be placebo effect :)).

That said, figured some of you may have large-ish deployments with many Mac clients.  Any tips you could provide would be much appreciated.

[gohussai]

Check the following configuration also for disabling.

[rvandolson]

Follow-up on this.  One big issue we discovered was that there were delays as our OSX clients evaluated certificate revolcation lists (CRL's) for our Enterprise Certificate as part of their authenticaiton and even roaming process.

Configuring the clients to "trust" the provided certificate completely resolved the "hiccups" we were seeing when Mac clients would roam.  Not sure that this is the best approach, but has worked well for us thus far.

[Ruslan Moldaliev]

hi all,

I'm facing similair issues with Macs however we have WLC 2504.

what type of authentication are you using? when is your CRL evaluation using? only for WPA-enterprise?

p.s. mine is WPA2-PSK.