Long authentication times

[Umberto Ferraro Petrillo]

Good morning Stefan, perhaps the solution you proposed could work in
my case. Could you suggest me the way to check if the lag depends on
the DHCP service? Do you know if there is any way to configure the
DHCP service timing (we are using freeradius + Chillispot on the
server side) so to avoid this case?

Thank you!

On 12/18/06, Stefan Winter <stefan.winter at restena.lu> wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> > Good morning to all, I am coordinating a project for installing a
> > wireless network at the Faculty of Statistics of University of Rome.
> > We have been using freeradius with PEAP and EAP-TTLS enabled. All
> > seems to work fine except for the very long authentication times
> > (about one minutes) we are experiencing when using the default Windows
> > XP supplicant.
...
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> I haven't done any extensive research, but my bundled Intel PRO/Wireless
> supplicant (comes with Centrino chipsets) gets it done within a few seconds.
> I believe that the time of issuing the DHCP request after authentication is
> quite crucial. If it is triggered too early, you hang around in an
> authenticated-but-not-ready state until the DHCP request times out and is
> tried again.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan
>

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Umberto Ferraro Petrillo
PhD
Dipartimento di Statistica,
Probabilita' e Statistiche Applicate
Universita' di Roma -- La Sapienza
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
00185 - Rome, Italy
phone: +39 06 499 10513
e-mail: Umberto.Ferraro at uniroma1.it