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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 22:32:25 +0100
From: Trond Davidsen <trond.davidsen@ii.uib.no>
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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Mpd and pap authentication
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Hi,
there seems to be a bug in mpd in the handling of PAP 
Authenticate-Ack's.  RFC 1334 section 2.2.2 specifies the packet format 
to look something like the following:

| Code | Identifier | Length | Msg-Length | Message |

Mpd leaves out the Msg-Length field, which confuses at least one ppp 
implementation, namely pppd (used in FreeBSD, Linux, MacOSX, ...).

Trond


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