STATE attribute

[Sarah Thomas]

Thanks Jouni.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 09:30:44AM +0530, Sarah Thomas wrote:
> >  When we are encapsulating into Radius packet and sending to radius
> server,
> > there is a check to see whether its a response to the previous
> > radius_access_challenge received from radius server. If that is the case,
> > then "state" attribute is being stored.
> >
> > Why is "state" so important and what is the idea behind it?
>
> It provides an option for RADIUS server to manage state for an
> authentication session. See RFC 2865, 5.24.
>
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