Re: Question about ppp auth chap callin

From: Tony Olzak (aolzak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 19:06:42 GMT-3


   
R5-----R6

If you put "callin" on R5, R6 won't have to authenticate when it is called
by R5. R6 will have to authenticate if it calls R5. Without the command,
both sides must authenticate to each other.

Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Buskus" <stan.buskus@att.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: Question about ppp auth chap callin

> Hi Everyone,
> I have spent the last couple of days playing with DDR using modems
> (can't afford ISDN). I was under the impression from "Building Cisco
> Remote Access Networks" that the called party was the first to issue a
> challenge. But after looking at the debugs it appears that the calling
> modem issues the challenge. Am I reading these debugs wrong?
>
> Also, how does "callin" feature change the authentication process? The
> "debug ppp auth" gives very little information about what is going on.
> I've tried configuring the callin option several ways. First I put it on
> both routers, which looks like normal ppp auth. The I added it on the
> calling router and then the called router. In both cases it looks like
> the same results. Can someone explain what goes on?
>
> Thanks,
> Stan Buskus
>
>



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