On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

|On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Clifford Kite wrote:
|
|> It seems strange for pppd to drop all authentication since it has the
|> require-pap option.  A Paul Mackerras question:  Does that happen because
|> the login option is also used or because pppd is run as root? 
|
|Neither: it stops asking for authentication so that the LCP negotiation
|can converge.  In this case it will take the link down as soon as LCP is
|up.

Duh.  I'm used to seeing that happen in CCP negotiations but didn't catch
it here.  Thanks.

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Clifford Kite                                               Not a guru. (tm)


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