hostapd EAPOL-Key timeouts from Macintosh clients

[Saul Tannenbaum]

Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:37:52PM -0500, Saul Tannenbaum wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've gotten hostapd working fine in WPA Personal mode,
>>and I can connect from an Windows XP client without
>>any problems.
>>
>>I've been unable to get it to connect from two
>>Macintoshes I've tried. The Macs both are running
>>Mac OS 10.3, one with an old Airport (802.11b)
>>card, one a newer Airport Extreme (802.11g) card.
> 
> 
> I have not tested the current hostapd version with Mac OS 10.3 clients.
> Could you please first test what happens if you enable only TKIP as a
> pairwise cipher ("wpa_pairwise=TKIP")?

That didn't help.

> If that does not help, I would
> suggest testing a change in hostap/ieee802_1x.h to use EAPOL version 1
> (i.e., change '2' to '1' on "#define EAPOL_VERSION 2" line).

But that did. Both Macs and the XP box are now working fine.

Out of curiosity, is this considered a Mac bug for not
working with EAPOL version 2 correctly, or a hostapd
bug, for not failing back to version 1 if version 2
fails? Or a gray area, where it's just up for grabs?

Thanks, both for the software and the help.

	- Saul


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