:Yes. Remember in a NAK you don't send what you are rejecting, but what you
:want to do instead. What is happening here is that the Gandalf whats to
Didnt know this. It makes sense now. THe gandalf is asking for something the
PM doesnt wanna do and the PM suggests that the Gandalf try CHAP?
:a special configuration, which you haven't done, so it is failing at the
:auth stage - when it can't find the CHAP user.
:BTW, the reason it doesn't support PAP is that means the PM-3 would transmit
:a cleartext password to the dial in client. And ANY dialin client, including
:an attacker, could make it do so with a PPP attempt. BAD.
It would be like me calling someone, asking who they are and forcing them to
PROVE who they were by them giving me their social security # or some other
item that the caller doesnt really know, but wants to in the case of a
hacker.
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