repeated re-auth attempts from OSX

[Matthew West]

> All EAP authentication is started by the client.  And if the client starts EAP 10 times in a row... well... no amount of  poking FreeRADIUS will fix the client.

I'm currently testing using Mac OS X clients and they are very chatty.
They will make requests regularly until they auth.

Matthew

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Dave Hanlon <dave.hanlon at nomical.com> wrote:
>> I have configured a freeradius (v2.2.0) server under Ubuntu server 16.04.1 which is connected to the domain and can successfully authenticate users in AD as checked with radtest, wbinfo and ntlm_auth tests along with 2 windows workstations using difference versions of OS.
>> I’m using PEAP with certificate authentication added through group policy and all working fine with Windows.
>
>   That's good.
>
>> However, on first connection from the macbook, it seems to request re-authentication a random number of times (10 or so?), each time receiving an ‘Access-Accept’ message.
>> It will then become stable and settle and remain connected after these initial attempts.
>
>   That's often radio level issues, or client issues.  It's really outside of the control of FreeRADIUS.
>
>   All EAP authentication is started by the client.  And if the client starts EAP 10 times in a row... well... no amount of poking FreeRADIUS will fix the client.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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