CTRL-EVENT-EAP-TIMEOUT-FAILURE with OpenWRT

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Found the solution in this very forum:

Wifi WPA2-Enterprise EAP-TLS connection drops

First, I had what seems the same issue for years till it got so annoying I tracked it down. The result of that was surprising: There can be only few WPA-EAP installations using linux with hostapd without freezes at the 1h mark if there is traffic at that time: Hostapd is automatically rekeying the PTK key when using EAP after 1h. And PTK rekeying can best be described as "mostly broken". (I found much more broken devices/drivers than working ones! And not only for Linux... long story.) So whe…