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>The <TT
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># Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client server secret acceptable_local_IP_addresses</PRE
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>The four fields are white space delimited and the last one can be blank (which is
what you want for a dynamic and probably static IP allocation from your ISP).</P
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>Suppose your ISP gave you a user name of <TT
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> option in
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># Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client server secret acceptable local IP addresses
fred * flintstone</PRE
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>This says for the local machine name <TT
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>fred</TT
> (which we have told pppd
to use even though it is not our local machine name) and for <I
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server, use the password (secret) of <TT
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>flintstone</TT
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>Note that we do not need to specify a local IP address, unless we are
required to FORCE a particular local, static IP address. Even if you try
this, it is unlikely to work as most PPP servers (for security reasons)
do not allow the remote system to set the IP number they are to be given.</P
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