Sporadic Windows 802.1x-PEAP-MSchapv2 failures solved with 2.1.10
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Mon Nov 15 20:04:40 CET 2010
Cannady, Mike wrote:
> I just wanted to let everyone know that the 2.1.10 release fixed a
> sporadic problem that we were having with PEAP-MSchapv2 and 802.1x. We
> had several PCs that would work only sometimes with freeradius, but they
> would always work with Microsoft's IAS. I would move a problem PC from
> a switch authenticating with windows to another switch authenticating
> through freeradius and back and the problem stayed with the freeradius
> one.
That's good to hear!
> I was running 2.1.7 at the time. I installed 2.1.10 to get to the
> latest version before using this list for help, just to have it fix the
> problem. I suspect bug#17 was the issue.
>
> If the issue hadn't been solved, we were preparing to go to two MS
> server datacenter servers to do just the radius work (we have a *lot* of
> switches) which I thought was a lot of overkill and wouldn't give us the
> flexibility to do what we plan with the radius server in the future.
> Now we don't need the MS servers now!
>
> Thanks a bunch!!!! You made me very happy!
Thanks is due to Neal Garber for tracking down the problem and
providing the fix.
Alan DeKok.
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