[lug] CHAP

[Paul Hardiman]

Rule # 1 - Never marry your vendor.

You may be better getting a different (better) ISP.

Aaron Hayden wrote:

> Yes, I'm one of those brand spanking newbies.  My ISP is bouldernews
> (part of infi.net) and recently they changed their local access phone
> numbers and instated MSCHAP (microsoft challenge/handshake
> authentication protocol). I've been having trouble dialing in because
> Linux needs to be configured specially to perform this protocol.  Even
> though I've sorted through all of the Linux HOWTO help files on CHAP
> and most of the PPP documentation. The main problem is that I don't
> know the <remotename> of the server that I would dial into. How can I
> find this out?  And does anybody use bouldernews sucessfully? and if
> so, how did you do it?

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Regards,
                 Paul Hardiman
            InterMedia, Inc (Colorado)
         Informations Systems Consulting
303-581-0606, Fax 581-0506, hardiman at hardiman.com