WPA/WPA2 Authentication failure - EAPOL-Key timeout

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 02:58:58AM +0200, Sebastian Siebert wrote:

> I have tested this with hostapd 2.0, hostapd 2.1 and
> hostapd-latest-git. I always get the same authentication failure but
> I can not find out the real issue. I turned on the debug output and
> get "EAPOL-Key timeout" every time (see below: # journalctl -f).

> # grep ^[^#] /etc/hostapd.conf
> interface=wlp4s0
> bridge=br0

> 5: wlp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq
> master br0 state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
>     link/ether 04:f0:21:0a:64:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 48: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT
>     link/ether 04:f0:21:0a:64:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

br0 does not seem to be up and since wlp4s0 is in that bridge, hostapd
won't be able to receive the EAPOL frames until br0 is in fully
operational state.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA