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

[Nick Petroni (npetroni]

Hi Joe,

> > - Item 5: it might check (reqId != lastReqId) (not "=="),
> >   but I don't think this is necessary, since Success/Failure
> >   are never retransmitted.
>
> [Joe] I've lost the context to this, but I thought that EAP-Success and
> EAP-Failure had the same ID as the previous request and response.  From
> 2284bis Section 4.2:
>
> "Identifier
>
> The Identifier field is one octet and aids in matching replies to
> Responses.  The Identifier field MUST match the Identifier field
> of the Response packet that it is sent in response to."

Sorry, I lead us down the wrong path. I misunderstood how this works. I am
still confused why it works this way, but either way you are correct
-- the Success should match the last Request/Response ID.

Regards,
nick