Accouting-Stop Packet sends MAC instead of User-Name in 0.2.0

gbur at local-web.net gbur
Sat Jan 17 00:00:49 PST 2004


Hello,

I'm using hostap with 802.1x enabled and a freeradius server.
Everything works fine. But the freeradius server doesn't accept the
accouting requests (stop packets) when a client goes offline (for
example idle timeout). The problem is that hostap sends accouting stop
packets with the mac-address instead of the user-name in the
radius-attribute user-name.

I think i found the bug in hostapd. The function ieee802_1x_free_sta()
is called a bit to often. This function frees all internal structures -
the user name to (sta->identity). As a fallback the mac-address will be 
send.

I think the calls of ieee802_1x_free_sta() in handle_disassoc() and
handle_deauth() are to much. ieee802_1x_free_sta() is called in 
ap_free_sta() after accouting-stop is send. Next problem: Radius is udp
- if the radius-server didn't ack the packet hostap will retransmit the
packet. But in this case ieee802_1x_free_sta() is called and
sta->identity is freed. 

In older versions of hostap (eg. 0.0.4) ieee802_1x_free_sta() isn't
called in handle_disassoc() and handle_deauth().

regards
Gunter Burchardt




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