eap Mailing List: Re: Ordered delivery of EAP messages

[Yoshihiro Ohba (yohba]

Glen,

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:15:24PM -0800, Glen Zorn (gwz) wrote:
> 
> My basic argument is that EAP _does_ work over a transport that doesn't
> guarantee in-order delivery (the example being RADIUS) except in a deep,
> dark, cobweb-filled corner case.  The arguments have been that
> "well-behaved" RADIUS implementations exhibit what amounts to in-order
> delivery despite the fact that it is not required by the RFCs but badly
> behaved EAP implementations will fail in a contrived, pathological case.
> I am saying that a badly-behaved RADIUS implementation would fail in
> that same pathological case and the converse.
> 

Which case do you mean by "badly-behaved EAP implementations"?

Yoshihiro Ohba