Apple clients suddenly can't authenticate to EAP-MSCHAPV2

Casartello, Thomas tomc at westfield.ma.edu
Sun Sep 2 17:06:40 CEST 2012


Problem resolved....My network admin made a change to an outbound access list blocking the radius server from communicating with these controllers. He just undid it and it's working now...........

-----Original Message-----
From: freeradius-users-bounces+tomc=westfield.ma.edu at lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+tomc=westfield.ma.edu at lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Alan DeKok
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 2:52 AM
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Subject: Re: Apple clients suddenly can't authenticate to EAP-MSCHAPV2

Casartello, Thomas wrote:
> Having a bizarre problem that started due to someone in my department 
> deleting the samba computer account for my freeradius machine. I 
> recreated it and for a time everything went back to normal, but later 
> that afternoon all of my apple clients can simply not connect to our 
> 802.1x enabled wireless network.

  That's what backups are for.  Re-creating the account doesn't mean it has the same configuration as before.

> We are using Cisco wireless
> controllers. Radiusd –X doesn’t seem to be giving me enough debug 
> output. Is there any suggestion as to drill down further to see what 
> is going on here. I am having no issues with my Windows 7 clients and 
> Windows mobile devices. Simply not getting enough information.
> Everything has been working fine for months and I don’t understand why 
> all of the sudden this is going on and why its only affecting Apple 
> IOS devices and iMacs so far. Here’s an example output.  This simply 
> loops over and over again:

  Well..

> rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 172.20.9.253 port 32769, 
> id=63, length=228
...
>         EAP-Message = 0x0207000c016f636c61726b65

  That's an EAP identity message, for user "oclarke".

> [eap] EAP Identity
> [eap] processing type tls
> [tls] Initiate
> [tls] Start returned 1
> ++[eap] returns handled

  That's all fine.

> Sending Access-Challenge of id 63 to 172.20.9.253 port 32769
> 
>         EAP-Message = 0x010800061920

  That's PEAP, and and empty PEAP packet, too.  That's wrong.

  Are you sure nothing else changed on the RADIUS server?

  Alan DeKok.
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