Re: Programming external modems with MSX

[Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha]

        Laurens,

> > I like to add that a lot of (Belgium) ISP are using CHAP, or even worse
> > MS-CHAP (Again one of the changed standards I was talking about in a
> > previous mail)
> Oh, never heard of it.

        Get pppd code and read the file MSCHAP80.

> Just don't send a Auth Protocol Request option with PAP in your
> Configure_Request packets (in fact don't send any kind of Auth Protocol
> Request packets) and all will work fine.

        Send a PAP auth request. If they deny it, shutdown the line. :)

> True. But implementation is (at least in Assembly) too complex to be worth
> the effort

        Hehehehehe... C is cool... :)

> (searching for the "Username:"-string, and a good implementation
> also requires the handling of scripts since the authentication is not
> standarized).

        That's right. And it's boring...


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