RE: EAP authentication timeout

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> From: Hostap [mailto:hostap-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Matthew Wang
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone have context on the 70 second timeout for EAP
> authentication? Specifically, this snippet of code in
> wpa_supplicant_rx_eapol:
> 
> if (wpa_key_mgmt_wpa_ieee8021x(wpa_s->key_mgmt) ||
>     wpa_s->key_mgmt == WPA_KEY_MGMT_IEEE8021X_NO_WPA ||
>     wpa_s->key_mgmt == WPA_KEY_MGMT_WPS) {
>   /* Use longer timeout for IEEE 802.1X/EAP */
>   timeout = 70;
> }
> 
> This seems like an egregiously long timeout, and it looks to be
> untouched since before 2008. Is this something that folks would be
> interested in changing? Any thoughts for or against?
> 
> Thanks!
> Matthew

I'm not familiar with the context here.

However, I can mention that VSAT (satellite based) links can expose a round trip time in the order of 60 seconds under extreme conditions, so it might be related to RADIUS communication across VSAT links?

-Morten


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