On 5/17/05, Ryan Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Multiple things utilising ppp can use that chap-secrets file for
> authentication, so you typically put a descriptor in there that defines
> that authentication line as unique (which /technically/ is meant to be
> the machines hostname, but I certainly don't use it like that) - for
> example, you only want pptpd to authenticate against a few defined
> passwords, instead of anything in that file (*).
> 
> That's defined in the ppp options file (whether that's pptpd-options, or
> the pptp client config file) as 'name'.
> 
> Right now I'm on a connection that both takes internal wireless
> connections via a poptop server, and has an external connection via wifi
> via a encrypted ppp connection (as I can't get ADSL at my current
> residence, but can link to a client up the road from me who can - ADSL2+
> this week hopefully!).  My internal usernames/passwords are tagged
> 'wireless', and the external link has a single password tagged
> 'extlink'.  This is useful because I don't want to be able to
> authenticate using the internal passwords on the external connection,
> and vice-versa.

I think you need to tell us more about this setup of yours. Sounds
very interesting :)
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