Configuring peer authentication – Netopia 6.3 User Manual

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Appendix A

CONFIG Commands

Configuring Peer Authentication

You can specify that your Cayman Gateway will use PAP, CHAP, or both to authen-
ticate a remote peer as a PPP link is being completed. Perform the following steps
to specify how your Cayman Gateway should authenticate remote peers.

Specifies whether the Cayman Gateway will use CHAP to authenticate connec-
tions to PPP peers.

Specifies whether the Cayman Gateway will use PAP to authenticate connections
to PPP peers.

Specifies the hostname for an authorized PPP peer. The hostname argument is 1-
64 alphanumeric characters. The information you enter must match the user-
name that will be returned by the PPP peer when it is being authenticated.

Specifies the secret associated with a PPP peer. The secret argument is 1-64 alpha-
numeric characters. The information you enter must match the secret that will be
returned by the PPP peer when it is being authenticated.

Specifies the password associated with a PPP peer. The password argument is 1-
64 alphanumeric characters. The password you enter for that peer must match
the password that will be returned by the PPP peer when it is being authenti-
cated.

BOTH

set PPP module [vccn] peer-authentication
chap-option { on | off }

BOTH

set PPP module [vccn] peer-authentication pap-option { on | off }

BOTH

set PPP peer-database

peer-name

hostname

BOTH

set PPP peer-database

peer-name

hostname

chap-secret

secret

BOTH

set PPP peer-database peer-name hostname pap-password

password

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