> >What Jim is saying is that RADIUS provides a reliable service to >EAP. That is, RADIUS is responsible for making sure that messages >reliably get from the NAS to the EAP server and back. >I believe he's approximately right and that the differences are not >things we need to worry abuot.
Right. > Josh> These aren't assumptions of the architecture, although I > Josh> believe it will end up being true in practice. > >I actually believe these are carefully crafted aspects of the >architecture. Really? Neither RADIUS nor some potential host protocols use reliable transports. It's obviously possible to use transports that are reliable, but we don't constrain the architecture to require the use of those. It's true that the GSS acceptor is hidden from this by the API abstraction, but it's possible for a GSS operation to fail because a token is lost by the unreliable transport. Josh. JANET(UK) is a trading name of The JNT Association, a company limited by guarantee which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG _______________________________________________ abfab mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/abfab
