Re: [Emu] Question of piggybacking in EAP

Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> Mon, 27 September 2021 17:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Emu] Question of piggybacking in EAP
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On Sep 27, 2021, at 1:18 PM, Yuan Tian <Y.Tian@cablelabs.com> wrote:
> And I checked AVP lists, there is an “EAP” AVP available and but it seems to be designed for AAA and needs to be always used with RADIUS access-request/access-challenge (is that okay if I do not allow the server to forwards the message in Radius access-request?).

  RFC 5281 Section 10 says that the inner data is in Diameter format, and uses the RADIUS / Diameter attribute space.  So just use EAP-Message.

>    Upon receipt of the tunneled EAP-Response/Identity, the TTLS server
>    forwards it to the AAA/H in a RADIUS Access-Request.
>  
> So my question is, besides EAP-TTLS, is there an EAP protocol that is widely supported and can be used for piggybacking a customized protocol?
> Thanks,.

  TTLS seems like the best approach.  Inside of that you can use EAP-Message, and a vendor-specific EAP type.

  Alan DeKok.