eap Mailing List: RE: Re: RFC 3579

[Suresh (sureshvv]

> My question
> a) When can authenticating peer/RADIUS-Server send multiple EAP messages?
> Has it got any thing to do with fragmentation?

Multiple EAP-Message attributes can be sent within a single RADIUS packet.
However, multiple EAP packets cannot be sent within a single RADIUS
packet.  EAP is a "lock step" protocol as documented in RFC 3748.

> b) Can some one please tell me what is differentiating an EAP message with
> an EAP packet?

An EAP packet can be split into multiple EAP-Message attributes.

Thanks for clarification. From the above

Is my understanding below also valid?
An Access Accept/Reject packet will not have multiple EAP-Message
attributes if they are carrying EAP-Success/Failure message and
vice versa.


regards
Suresh