From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 22:38:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3050237B406 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew.reid@plug.cx) Received: from percible.alfred.cx (percible.alfred.cx [150.101.93.190]) by mail.plug.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8411C2B7E4; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:58:59 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: PPPoE autentication problems....Can anybody help me, please??? From: Andrew Reid To: David Banning Cc: gustavo@infodoors.com.ar, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20010726013356.A22903@sympatico.ca> References: <000901c11570$95cdd6a0$0a01a8c0@texas> <20010726005417.E22449@sympatico.ca> <996111760.6888.103.camel@percible.alfred.cx> <20010726013356.A22903@sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.11 (Beta Release) Date: 26 Jul 2001 11:35:06 +0930 Message-Id: <996113107.6701.106.camel@percible.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Jul 2001 01:33:56 -0500, David Banning wrote: > I can't see this as a realistic risk, as pppoe (dsl) is arranged by the service > provider specificly to the user line only, is it not? Some ISPs do it this way, others do not. Also, depending on how the ISP has their authentication and service provision setup, it -may- be possible to use the provided username/password pair to authenticate using another medium such as Dialup or ISDN. Like I said "... It's a joke, Joyce." - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message