Alan DeKok <al...@deployingradius.com> wrote:
    >> being fairly new to the EAP world, I noticed that in some environment,
    >> EAP is layered on top of other protocols - in particular RADIUS and
    >> DIAMETER.

    > EAP was originally over PPP.  Now it's mostly RADIUS.  There may be
    > increasing use in the Diameter space.

I would say it differently, because radius and PPP are not equivalent.

EAP was originally over-PPP connected to over-Radius.
EAP is now more commonly over-802.1x connected over-Radius.
With Diameter replacing Radius in some environments.
EAP is "end-to-end" supplicant to Authentication Server.

(I know you (Alan) know this, but others might not)

    > For TTLS, it can be:

    > * Ethernet
    > * IP
    > * UDP
    > * RADIUS
    > * EAP
    > * EAP-TTLS
    > *  TLS
    > *  EAP
    > *  EAP-MSCHAPv2
    > *  MSCHAPv2 credentials

    > Yes, it's complicated.

:-)

    > Open Source implementations of EAP are few and far between.  On the
    > server side, it's only hostap and FreeRADIUS.  On the client side, it's
    > hostap.

    > There used to be "xsupplicant" and "open1x" on the client side, but
    > those have been dead for 10 years.


    >> In particular, the use of the

    > Early truncation?

lack of fragmentation :-)

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