eap Mailing List: RE: [Issue 203] Comments on EAP-Peer state machine

[Nick Petroni (npetroni]

Hi Pasi, just one quick note-

> - Item 5: it might check (reqId != lastReqId) (not "=="),
>   but I don't think this is necessary, since Success/Failure
>   are never retransmitted.
It's still a violation of the protocol though for the packet to have the
same ID as the previous one. I agree the change won't affect how one
transitions in the state machine since eventually you will go to success
anyway, but it seems if the identity were not new the packet should be
discarded.

Regards,
nick