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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>Hello,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>One of customer shared with us the following problem.
As we don`t have entry on this issue in our database and the problem is not
obvious to replicate, i am
mailing hostap!</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>We are
using </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2><FONT><FONT><FONT face=Calibri size=3>wpa_supplicant 0.6.10 <SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>(latest stable) under Linux </SPAN>to perform
wired 802.1x authentication <SPAN class=483553809-15062010>in</SPAN> IP
phones.<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT><FONT><FONT><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>-</SPAN> When <SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>we</SPAN> connect a supplicant on the PC port of the
phone, </FONT><FONT face=Calibri><STRONG>the<BR>authentication of this device
triggers a new authentication of the<BR>phone 30sec later</STRONG>. Indeed, the
phone sends an eapol_start to the<BR>switch which in turn starts a new
authentication procedure. Note<BR>that the switch port is not configured to
perform re-authentication.<BR>This re-authentication should theorically no<SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>t
happen.</SPAN><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN class=483553809-15062010>In resume once the phone
is authenticated, if we plug a PC behind the phone (Supplicant B), it leads to
an unexpected re-authentification of the phone (Supplicant A) each times the PC
authenticates.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN class=483553809-15062010>I can provide more
details and capture if it can help.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><FONT><SPAN class=483553809-15062010></SPAN><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
class=483553809-15062010>thanks for the help and
regards,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><FONT><FONT><SPAN class=483553809-15062010></SPAN><FONT
face=Calibri><SPAN class=483553809-15062010>Abdel
E.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT><FONT><FONT><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
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