topic Re: Dynamic PSK with MacOS clients in Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor

Dynamic PSK with MacOS clients

jason_davis_793 — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:59:41 GMT

Can anyone share their experience using the Dynamic PSK feautre with MacOS/OSX clients? Did you encounter any issues? We're planning on deploying this, but want to know of any potential issues before doing so. Of course we're going to test 🙂

Re: Dynamic PSK with MacOS clients

nicolas_maton — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:18:38 GMT

We have DPSK in use with MacOS/osX clients.
This works well.

However there is one caveat.

Due to the nature of icloud sharing Wi-Fi passwords are shared among devices.

This will cause for problems as an iPad/iPhone will try to connect to the network with the same DPSK password as the MacOs client. Due to the way DPSK works (unique mac + device) the device which connects second will not be able to connect.

Ruckus is working on a Group DPSK feature (so more than 1 mac will be able to connect with the same pass). This will resolve this issue.

Re: Dynamic PSK with MacOS clients

jason_davis_793 — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:45:52 GMT

Thanks for the input, we're facing the same issue with 802.1x. I'll be rolling out a device ACL to address the keychain sharing, then force those devices on to a separate network.

Have you noticed any slowness in the initial SSID connection using DPSK?

Re: Dynamic PSK with MacOS clients

nicolas_maton — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:23:34 GMT

Hi, no we haven't noticed any slowness. That seems to be working well.