> So, GSS expects the application to provide reliable transport to it.
> Normally applications do this by running over TCP.  In TCP, if a node
> discards a packet without acknowledging it, then it is retransmitted at
> the TCP layer.
> It's an error to discard a packet after acknowledging.
> 

The important thing is, who is acknowledging the receipt and who is discarding 
packet.
It's perfectly fine when the EAP lower layer (who provides reliable delivery) 
is acknowledging the receipt, but then the EAP layer or the EAP method (i.e., 
the higher layers) is discarding the packet.

Alper


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