RE: [LinkSec] Issues with Supplicant Controled port
If I've understood the question right..
Yes is very important to allow the supplicant to send and receive via
the uncontrolled port at any time it can. My rational is that there may
be some other (unsecured) service, attached to an LSAP on the
uncontrolled port side of the fork. Say a hypothetical handoff related
service.
I will have gory details at the next Linksec Call.
DJ
David Johnston
Intel Corporation
Chair, IEEE 802 Handoff ECSG
Email : dj.johnston@intel.com
Tel : 503 380 5578 (Mobile)
Tel : 503 264 3855 (Office)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Moskowitz [mailto:rgm@trusecure.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:55 PM
> To: CONGDON,PAUL (HP-Roseville,ex1); Tony Jeffree;
> stds-802-1@ieee.org; stds-802-linksec@ieee.org
> Subject: RE: [LinkSec] Issues with Supplicant Controled port
>
>
>
> This is what I get from sending my note on the road...
>
> I MEANT THE UNCONTROLLED PORT!!!!
>
> SORRY!!!!
>
> :)
>
> At 10:51 PM 8/11/2003 -0400, CONGDON,PAUL (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote:
>
> >If the supplicant has a controlled port like the
> authenticator does, then it
> >also presumably has an uncontrolled port. It is possible to send and
> >receive frames on the uncontrolled port at anytime that is physically
> >possible.
> >
> >Paul
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert Moskowitz [mailto:rgm@trusecure.com]
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:32 AM
> > > To: Tony Jeffree; stds-802-1@ieee.org; stds-802-linksec@ieee.org
> > > Subject: [LinkSec] Issues with Supplicant Controled port
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At the San Fran meeting there was good concensus to accept my
> > > requested
> > > change to explicitly define the Supplicant Control Port.
> > >
> > > There was one concern. That was:
> > >
> > > When the Supplicant is portStatus=Invalid,
> > >
> > > The Supplicant cannot transmit, but can it receive?
> > >
> > > I think the discuss was going that it was important for
> > > bridges that were
> > > supplicants to receive frames even in the Invalid status.
> > >
> > > We need to resolve this so we can settle the disposition of
> > > my changes for
> > > the Supplicant Controled Port.
> > >
> > >
> > > Robert Moskowitz
> > > Senior Technical Director
> > > ICSA Labs, a division of TruSecure Corp.
> > > (248) 968-9809
> > > Fax: (248) 968-2824
> > > rgm@icaslabs.com
> > >
> > > There's no limit to what can be accomplished
> > > if it doesn't matter who gets the credit
> > >
> > >
>
> Robert Moskowitz
> Senior Technical Director
> ICSA Labs, a division of TruSecure Corp.
> (248) 968-9809
> Fax: (248) 968-2824
> rgm@icaslabs.com
>
> There's no limit to what can be accomplished
> if it doesn't matter who gets the credit
>
>
>