802.1x Wifi Authentication Timeout

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Dear Board,

I don’t understand the following behaviour, maybe one of you can give me a hint?

I configured a VM with Freeradius and advice some Mikrotik Routerboards to authenticate the WiFi connections against the Radius server. Everything works fine, except one strange thing:

  1. A Windows 7 notebooks try to connect to the SSID
  2. In my Routerboard > Wireless > Registration I can see the client
  3. In the RouterOS Log I see an entry like: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx@myssid: connected
  4. A popup occurs in Windows 7 and asks for the user credentials
  5. After 8-10 seconds I see in my RouterOS Log: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx@ disconnected, 802.1x authentication timeout
  6. If I now put in the credentials, I got an error message from Windows 7, which seems to be very logical

To sum this behaviour up:

I really have to hurry up, because if I’m to slow (<8-10 seconds) I will get the same window for the credentials again and again and again until I’m fast enough. I checked with a Linux OS and there the timeout value seems to be much higher.

Where is this timeout value defined? Is there a possibility to increase this timeout in RouterOS or Windows?

Thanks!!!

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What is your RADIUS timeout value in the MikroTik? The default is 300ms, so you may want to change to some much higher.

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I changed my radius timeout in different manners, but in my oppinion this effect isn’t influenced by Radius. Because the Windows notebook disconnects after 8-10 seconds, even If I have not finished to type in the credentials. :frowning:

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Hi.
I know it is quite old post but I have this same problem. Did you find the solution? I will be appreciate if you describe it here.

Thanks
Rafal