MacOS regular disconnections in enterprise network

Hi, I am working on a case in our organisation where hundreds if not a thousand wireless network clients are affected by regular, usually every 30 sometimes 60 minutes disconnections - these are unnoticeable but often people having meetings notice that a lot.


We excluded wireless network configuration issue since disconnections happens to clients both connected to Cisco and Ubiquiti Access Points.


WLC logs mostly show EAP timeout errors - clients are getting deauthenticated and authenticated back - usually without any action needed - but the meeting is being interrupted.


What I found in Macbook logs with sudo log show [options] is the main reason of network disconnection ---> disconnect_reason?


Do you guys have any idea where can I see that DNS symptoms?


I can also see some reading like:

2025-02-04 14:16:31.219169+0100 0xc01342   Default     0x0                  86459  0    wifianalyticsd: [com.apple.wifi.analytics:Default] -[WAEngine gatherConsecutiveDatapathReadings:forProcessToken:andReply:]_block_invoke::4235:DNS Symptoms pre-decision check:: Associated:YES Primary:YES isCaptive:NO isValidDnsConfig:YES

2025-02-04 14:16:31.219169+0100 0xc01342 Default 0x0 86459 0 wifianalyticsd: [com.apple.wifi.analytics:Default] -[WAEngine gatherConsecutiveDatapathReadings:forProcessToken:andReply:]_block_invoke::4238:SDNS: WiFi Not Primary - setting suppressedReason kSymptomsDnsWiFiInterfaceNotPrimary

WiFi Not Primary - how if this is my only interface? - I removed all other


Killing and disabling wifianalyticsd does not help - the process is being spawned by launchd on airportd request:

2025-02-04 08:54:11.903825+0100 0xb85274   Default     0x0                  627    0    airportd: (WiFiAnalytics) [com.apple.wifi.analytics:Default] -[WAClient _establishDaemonConnection]_block_invoke::1057:XPC: establishing connection to daemon with token ending in: <private>...
2025-02-04 08:54:11.907779+0100 0xb8504a Default 0x0 627 0 airportd: (IO80211) [com.apple.WiFiManager:] Info: <airport[627]> -[dpsManager submitDpsSymptom:isCriticalApp:]_block_invoke:
2025-02-04 08:54:11.907943+0100 0xb8504a Default 0x0 627 0 airportd: (IO80211) -[dpsManager submitDpsSymptom:isCriticalApp:]_block_invoke: Error preparing DPSNotification for submission: Error Domain=com.apple.wifi.analytics.errordomain Code=9014 "WAErrorCodeDaemonContactTimeout" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=WAErrorCodeDaemonContactTimeout}, or null WAMessageAWD
2025-02-04 08:54:11.908055+0100 0xb8504a Default 0x0 627 0 airportd: (IO80211) [com.apple.WiFiManager:] <airport[627]> -[dpsManager submitDpsSymptom:isCriticalApp:]_block_invoke: Error preparing DPSNotification for submission: Error Domain=com.apple.wifi.analytics.errordomain Code=9014 "WAErrorCodeDaemonContactTimeout" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=WAErrorCodeDaemonContactTimeout}, or null WAMessageAWD
2025-02-04 08:54:11.910453+0100 0xb85274 Default 0x0 627 0 airportd: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x80fe64640] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.wifianalyticsd
2025-02-04 08:54:11.911105+0100 0xb85382 Default 0x0 1 0 launchd: [system/com.apple.wifianalyticsd:] internal event: WILL_SPAWN, code = 0
2025-02-04 08:54:11.911229+0100 0xb85382 Default 0x0 1 0 launchd: [system/com.apple.wifianalyticsd:] service state: spawn scheduled
2025-02-04 08:54:11.911233+0100 0xb85382 Default 0x0 1 0 launchd: [system/com.apple.wifianalyticsd:] service state: spawning
2025-02-04 08:54:11.911384+0100 0xb85382 Default 0x0 1 0 launchd: [system/com.apple.wifianalyticsd:] launching: ipc (mach)
2025-02-04 08:54:11.920272+0100 0xb85382 Default 0x0 1 0 launchd: [system/com.apple.wifianalyticsd [86459]:] xpcproxy spawned with pid 86459


Do you guys have any idea what is the cause of this behaviour?

Or how to disable wifianalyticsd process for good?




MacBook Pro (M4)

Posted on Feb 6, 2025 3:53 AM

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