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Re: Security problem in PPPoE connection

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun Mar 12 14:34:55 2006

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Joe Shen <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:32:26 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20060312064818.58724.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> (Joe Shen's
	message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:48:18 +0800 (CST)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


* Joe Shen:

> What's your method to deal with such problem? Will
> CHAP in PPPoE help?

AFAIK, CHAP does not authenticate the terminal server, either, so it
won't stop all attacks.

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