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>16.5. Handling multiple PAP-authenticated connections</A
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>Some users have more than one server to which they connect that use PAP.
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>However, many users have the same user name on two (or more - even all)
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systems to which they connect. This then presents a problem in correctly
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>/etc/ppp/pap-secrets</TT
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>As you might expect, PPP provides a mechanism for overcoming this. PPP
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>Let us suppose that you connect to two PPP servers using the username
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fred. You set up your <TT
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>fred pppserver1 barney
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fred pppserver2 wilma</PRE
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>Now, to set connect to pppserver1 you would use <TT
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pppserver1</TT
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