IETF 58 PANA WG PANA Implementation Report Hannes Tschofenig Marcus Tegnander Srinath Thiruvengadam

Nov. 2003IETF58 PANA WG Supported Functionality Simple state machine Packet filter installation (Linux / IPTables) EAP-API based on Open 1.X EAP state machine (Supplicant/Authenticator) –Considered Yoshi’s EAP state machine based on ACE –Considered state machine of Open 1.X project –Finally, we decided to write our own. Extensive logging support Configuration File parsing using Flex/Bison Multiple Session Management

Nov. 2003IETF58 PANA WG Supported Functionality Ad-Hoc Network Scenario Experimental feature (not in PANA!) Uses alternative discovery mechanism (see Issue 12) Uses Router Alert Option in PANA discovery message PANA runs between non-neighboring nodes (required in this scenario)

Nov. 2003IETF58 PANA WG Problems Missing standardized EAP-API caused problems for EAP method integration Problems with standard IKE interaction (no API to dynamically trigger IKE) –FreeS/WAN (Pluto) –FreeBSD (Racoon)

Nov. 2003IETF58 PANA WG Open Issues / Next Steps Open Source Efforts New EAP Methods Updates based on recent draft –State machine –Multicast-based discovery procedure –Interaction with AAA protocols

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