[c-nsp] Bellsouth DSL / PPPoE config

[Jon Lewis]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Josh Duffek wrote:

> Brian,
> I haven't done any PPPoE configs yet but your DDR/PPP stuff looks right.
> During the LCP negotiation they will decide on chap or pap...I have
> never seen both but I'm not going to tell you it's not possible...but I
> don't think it is.

> > I am going to be configuring a PPPoE circuit for someone, just ethernet
> > talking to a DSL bridge.  I have heard that Bellsouth requires both PAP
> > and chap simultaneous authentication for their BBG, does anyone know if
> > thats true?

It's not true.  You can keep doing [just] PAP on the BBG.  As an added
bonus, on the BBG, your clients can do either PPPoA or PPPoE and Bell's
gear handles either one and still passes it to you as L2TP.  I found that
out by accident while testing some new CPE gear and was surprised to see
one of them came setup for PPPoE and after putting in the username and
passwd, it just worked.

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