[cisco-nas] ppp max-bad-auth

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Dennis Peng wrote:

> Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) [oboehmer at cisco.com] wrote:
> 
>>>Where does it depend on?
>>>Is it something that depends on the operating system? The ppp
>>>implementation?  RFC 1661? 
>>>After doing some quick tests, i found out that Win98 supported it,
>>>but W2k & WinXP did not. 
>>
>>It depends on the OS and its implementation of RFC2433. I think it
>>requires ms-chap being negotiated with the access-server/lns when using
>>MS protocol stack, otherwise the client ignores it (not 100% sure). 
> 

After enabling ms-chap on Win2K/WinXP machines (ms-chap was also configured on router's 
side), it worked fine ;-)

> 
> In Win98 and ealier, the Microsoft PPP client would re-prompt the user
> for PAP (possibly CHAP as well) username/password if an authentication
> failure was received. This "feature" was removed in Win2k and later.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
>>	oli
>>
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