Hi, Bob

Thanks for your explanation.

I am also thinking whether it is easy to replicate the mentioned
problem. It seems that the re-auth is working fine.

Regards,
Chun-Yeow

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:28:37AM -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
>> > What is the consequence if we don't handle this case? Is the peer
>> > going to do the re-auth again?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Chun-Yeow
>>
>> It shouldn't be a big problem -- looking at 802.11-2012 figure 13-2:
>
> Actually, thinking about it more, a worse case is if B reaches
> ESTAB and then A reboots.  Now, A sends an Open, gets back
> a Confirm that A will ignore (due to no plid).  A will still
> timeout and send a Close frame to restart everything, but we
> would have to wait quite a while to re-establish the peering.
>
> --
> Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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