Bill Unruh writes: > > Ok. > > The server must request it. > > There IS NO SERVER. ppp is a point to point protocol in which both sides > have entirely equal status. If you want eap, then ask for it. do not try to > force the other side to ask for it. Both are entirely equal peers.
More or less. What he means is that the system that is designated as the authenticator must ask for it, and he's concerned about what the authenticatee should do if the authenticator doesn't behave as expected. EAP and TLS aren't symmetric that way. > > But if the server doesn't request authentication? > > The client will connect to an untrusted server. > > We don't want this to happen. > > Then ask the other side to authenticate itself. What is difficult about > that? In that case, his side will be the authenticator, and he doesn't want that to happen. -- James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
