We use 802.1x for our wireless security at work. The wireless controller uses Microsoft’s IAS as the RADIUS server. Recently during one of our maintenance windows, we installed a couple of critical patches and rebooted the IAS server. This was over the weekend and we didn’t check if wireless was working after the maintenance (one of the lessons learnt from his story :), put in automated monitoring so that you don’t have to worry about what services have come up or not after a maintenance window).
On Monday, our helpdesk gets swamped with calls of “wireless is not working”. We checked the controller and everything looked okay. Only error on the controller was that the RADIUS server was not responding. We checked the RADIUS server and the IAS service was running fine. But there were a ton of errors in the System event log with the following details
| Access request for user XXXX\XXXXXX was discarded. Fully-Qualified-User-Name = XXX.XXXX.NET/XXX.XXX/TECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT/XXX XXXXXX NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.128.10 NAS-Identifier = ACHIAS01IT Called-Station-Identifier = 00-0B-85-06-0C-A0:wacker Calling-Station-Identifier = 00-14-A4-28-4C-EE Client-Friendly-Name = ACHIAS01IT Client-IP-Address = 192.168.128.10 NAS-Port-Type = Wireless – IEEE 802.11 NAS-Port = 1 Proxy-Policy-Name = Use Windows authentication for all users Authentication-Provider = Windows Authentication-Server = Reason-Code = 23 Reason = Unexpected error. Possible error in server or client configuration. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. |
