Re: [PATCH 08/15] mka: MKPDU SAK Use Body's Delay Protect bit set incorrectly

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On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 03:10:56PM -0500, msiedzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Delay Protect and Replay Protect are two separate and distinct features
> of MKA.  Per IEEE802.1X-2010 Clause 9.10.1 "Delay Protect, TRUE if LPNs
> are being reported sufficiently frequently to allow the receipt to
> provide data delay protection.  If FALSE, the LPN can be reported as
> zero", and per Clause 9.10 "NOTE - Enforcement of bounded received delay
> necessitates transmission of MKPDUs at frequency (0.5 s) intervals, to
> meet a maximum data delay of 2 s while minimizing connectivity
> interruption due to the possibility of lost or delayed MKPDUs."
> 
> This means ieee802_1x_mka_sak_use_body.delay_protect should only be set
> TRUE when MKPDUs are being transmitted every 0.5 s (or faster).  By
> default the KaY sends MKPDUs every MKA_HELLO_TIME (2.0s), so by default
> delay_protect should be FALSE.
> 
> A new 'u32 mka_hello_time' parameter to has been added to the
> 'ieee802_1x_kay' data structure.  If delay protection is desired, the
> KaY initialization code should set kay->mka_hello_time to
> MKA_BOUNDED_HELLO_TIME (500ms).

Thanks, applied.
 
-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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