eap Mailing List: Retransmission in EAP-Relay

[Suresh (sureshvv]

Hi,
I have a query regarding retransmission in RFC-3579.


The setup.

 EAP-Client                           (RFC-3579)--------- RADIUS Server
     |                                    |
 Lower layer x -------------------- Lower layer x

Assume that lower layer supports retransmission and RADIUS server sent
an Access-Challenge packet with EAP packet and also set session timeout
attribute.

1) Should the retransmission time interval of the Lower layer
be over rided with the Access-Challenge session timeout attribute value
for that EAP-packet?

OR

2) Should Authenticator ignore the value of Access-challenge session timeout
attribute and leave the retransmission functionality to the Lower layer?


Thanks
-Suresh