RE: [eap] RE: [Isms] RADIUS is not a trusted third party

["Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <gwz@cisco.com>]

Bernard Aboba <mailto:aboba@internaut.com> supposedly scribbled:

>> "EAP server" is what "eap peer" and "aaa" share.
> 
> An EAP server can exist on the authenticator when there is  no AAA
> server present.  

I'd actually go a bit further and claim that the distinction between
the authenticator and the EAP "server" is one of convenience & that
they are logically the same entity.

> It is a distinct entity from the EAP peer.  It is
> not "shared" between the EAP peer and AAA server.  
> 
>> Oh and we _are_ talking EAPv2, right?
> 
> The only version of EAP that I'm familiar with is defined in RFC
3748.
> 
> Maybe this entire discussion has been about some *other* version
of
> EAP? 

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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simply
  listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel

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