[plug] adsl opinions

[Davyd 'proXy' Madeley]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 13:11, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Whom use chap for password authentication, but do you know how long it
> > took to find someonw who could tell me that?
> 
> AFAIK they still use PPPoE, just the PPP auth method is CHAP not PAP. Of 
> course, Bigpond == Telstra and they just /have/ to be different.

That's what I said.
Just Telstra techs insisted it was PAP, because that was 'password
authentication'. You didn't need a challange to authenticate.
Finally I found one to tell me it was CHAP. Then it worked straight
away.
pppoeconf can't do chap though, you have to do it by hand (sigh)

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