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WAX220 WPA2-Enterprise help with VLAN?
I have 3 WiFi networks configured like so: ESSID_1 - 5gz only - WPA2-Personal - VLAN 101 ESSID_2 - 2.4ghz only - WPA2-Personal - VLAN 107 ESSID_3 - 2.4ghz and 5ghz - WPA2-Personal + fast roamin...
Thank you so much for looking into this.
My best guess as to what is going on is: When a management VLAN is configured and the Wifi networks are also configured with VLANs (Not sure if the Wifi VLANs are part of the issue or if it is only with management VLAN), some misbehavior occurs when the WAX220 tries to communicate with a radius server on the configured management VLAN.
This is why, in my troubleshooting, I made sure the radius was accessible on every VLAN, to see if the WAX220 was trying to contact the radius server over whichever VLAN is configured for the Wifi network - and based on the (malformed?) packet I see every time a client associates to that particular ESSID - this appears to be the case.
A frame that I think should be sent over VLAN 101 (the management VLAN) ends up getting corrupted(?) and sent over VLAN 107 (the VLAN set for the wifi network with WPA2-Enterprise enabled)
Now that I think about it. If a management VLAN is configured, the only IP assigned on the WAX220 would be whatever DHCP it got (or static) IP on the management VLAN - and so this naturally would be where I think the radius traffic would occur.
MikeD1234 did you ever get a chance to test this and see if our theory about the RADIUS traffic being corrupted and/or not sent over the management VLAN is what is happening?
Hello base9,
If I may ask have you added the WAX220 as one of your RADIUS client in your Network Policy Server?
Regards,
Erwin
Hello base9,
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Thanks in advance!
Have lovely day,
Erwin
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