eap Mailing List: RE: Retransmission in EAP-Relay

[Suresh (sureshvv]

But the RFC-3579 section 2.3 Retransmission says

   It may be necessary to adjust retransmission strategies and
   authentication timeouts in certain cases.  For example, when a token
   card is used additional time may be required to allow the user to
   find the card and enter the token.  Since the NAS will typically not
   have knowledge of the required parameters, these need to be provided
   by the RADIUS server.  This can be accomplished by inclusion of
   Session-Timeout attribute within the Access-Challenge packet.

-----Original Message-----
From: Srinivasa Rao Addepalli [mailto:srao [at] intoto.com]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 12:53 AM
To: Suresh; eap [at] frascone.com
Subject: Re: [eap] Retransmission in EAP-Relay


I suggest option 2. I don't think session timeout is meant for this anyway.

Srini
Intoto Inc.
www.intoto.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suresh" <sureshvv [at] intotoinc.com>
To: <eap [at] frascone.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:59 AM
Subject: [eap] Retransmission in EAP-Relay


> 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
>
>
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