Thank you Stefan, Im on the line now :-)
Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Stefan Winter > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:28 AM > To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org > Subject: Re: AW: Allways 10 Times to authenticate > > > Hello! > > > I think the better solution is .... to learn/understand how > it works ! > > Anyway thanks for your answer ! > > The answer why there are so many "requests" is that during an > EAP session, > lots of data has to be exchanged, not just some small > attributes that fit > into a single RADIUS packet. > The important content is sent in an attribute named > EAP-Message, which is of > limited length. So, if more data has to be exchanged, the > message is split in > chunks and a lengthy EAP "conversation" takes place. This has > to be done for > example when it comes to exchanging server or client > certificates as these > tend to be long. > In that case, one party sends the first chunk of data and the > other replies > with a "go ahead" until one side is finished. Since the > RADIUS protocol only > has the two message types "Request" and "Reply", one of the > two sides of the > conversation has to be labelled a Request and the other the > Reply. As Alan said, do not confuse that Request message with > an all-new "Request > from a user to authenticate". > > So, don't worry, everything will be okay. > > Stefan Winter > > -- > Stefan WINTER > > Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education > Nationale et de > la Recherche > Ingénieur réseau et système > > 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi > L-1359 Luxembourg > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tél.: +352 424409-33 http://www.restena.lu fax: +352 422473 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
