FreeRadius 2.1.12, why is EAP AKA support in eap2 module

[Altaf Husain]

Thanks Phil this information was helpful

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 03/15/2012 12:36 PM, Altaf Husain wrote:
>
>>    Hi,
>>    We are using FreeRadius ver 2.1.12, I had query regarding EAP-AKA
>>    support in eap2 module, its mentioned in FreeRadius website that
>>    "This module is experimental, and may not be ready for use in a
>>    production environment", Is it still in experimental state, can't it
>>    be used as EAP-SIM, is performance tested for EAP-AKA. I am waiting
>>    for response so that we supporting EAP-AKA in our product using
>>    FreeRadius, any specific reason for keeping it in eap2 module rather
>>    then mainline eap module.
>>
>
> You don't understand how the eap2 module works.
>
> There is not much code in eap2; eap2 just passes all the EAP requests to
> the codebase in hostapd.
>
> You can't just "move" EAP-AKA from the eap2 module to eap, because there
> isn't actually any EAP-AKA code there - it's all in hostapd, which is a
> completely different codebase with a different API, different coding
> conventions, different build infrastructure, etc.
>
> If you want EAP-AKA support in the main "eap" module, you'll have to write
> it, or pay someone to write it, from scratch. I guess the EAP-AKA code in
> eap2/hostapd could be used as a reference, but that's about it.
>
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