On 13/12/12 15:22, David Peterson wrote:
I wanted to ping the Eduroam people about EAP over WAN links. Are there
considerations that can cause connectivity issues that I should be
examining?
Well... maybe.
EAP is lockstep, so round-trip time is a factor - if your RTT is 100ms
and your EAP exchange sends 10 packets, it will take a *minimum* of 1
second to authenticate.
In addition, since a given source/dest ip/port can only have 255 radius
packets outstanding (because the ID field is 1 byte) a flurry of
re-authentications might necessitate multiple proxy sockets (I can't
remember if FreeRADIUS opens new ones for you automatically when the ID
space is full). But TBH this is a pretty theoretical problem.
Packet loss is an issue, because you'll then suffer retransmits and the
timers for these on most supplicants are slow. So avoid lossy links.
I guess in theory bit-error-rate is a factor if you have a "dirty" link,
since the packet may/will fail Message-Authenticator checks and have to
be retransmitted.
In short - the usual list of stuff with WAN links.
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