Re: (ASCEND) PAP and CHAP with TNT

[Jim Williams <jaw12@ntrnet.net>]

Only problem is these are UUnet's boxes..:)

Jim Williams                  Ntrnet Systems, Inc.
President/CEO                 Research Triangle Park, NC
jaw12@ntrnet.net              (919)484-0504 fax(919)484-0782


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Alan Spicer wrote:

> * Set your TNT's in Answer-Defaults, receive-auth-mode to = pap-ppp-auth. 
> That will force everyone to use PAP. MS Windows 9x and probably 2000 can
> do PAP when they are forced to ;-) [there's pap, chap, MS Chap]. The Windows
> boxes won't mind ... they'll just be told that PAP is the only option when they
> connect.
> 
> We had situations where we had to do PAP only because the Radius Software
> expected that and would fail authentication on CHAP [MS CHAP?].
> 
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Oliver Stettner wrote:
> > Jim Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > We have signed up to resell UUnet dialup nationwide.  We are running into a
> > > problem however.  UUnet says that they have their TNT boxes set to do both
> > > CHAP and PAP.  Problem we are running in to is that when anyone dials in
> > > with Windows 9x it tries to use ONLY CHAP (it does not seem to fall back to
> > > PAP when CHAP fails and I know that Microsoft leads with CHAP) and then
> > > fails because we really need PAP.  How has everyone gotten around this
> > > problem or have you?
> > 
> > Blame Microsoft for that problem. :-(
> > 
> > But why can't you use CHAP?
> > 
> > Oliver.
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