[Gllug] Demon dial-up problems

[Jim Cheetham]

At 11:48 26/07/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>* Jim Cheetham (jim at gonzul.org) wrote:
> >
> > >Ask yourself why every isp in the world is switching to chap and most
> > >have already dropped cleartext logins.
> >
> > Because that's what windows does by default and no-one can be bothered to
> > change it.
>
>Er. That's blatently untrue. Windows was late to pick up chap.

I wasn't saying that chap exists because of windows :-) I was saying that 
ISPs support chap over plain-text login because their (majority) customer 
base has it installed and enabled by default. And then the access 
routers/terminal servers picked it up and made it easy ... so ISPs stopped 
supporting anything *except* chap/pap.

There are also great technical reasons for it, but it's not necessary over 
a true point-to-point connection ... but at the ISP end there are not many 
scalable point-to-point solutions.

I've nothing against it - it works, and I use it.


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