ActionTec Broadband Router RI408 User Manual page 45

Actiontec Broadband Router User Manual
Login User Name Enter the user name (provided by the ) in this text box.
ISP
Login Password Enter the password (provided by the
) in this text box.
ISP
Support Unencrypted Password (PAP) Password Authentication Protocol (
)
PAP
is a simple, plain-text authentication scheme. The user name and password are
requested by the networking peer in plain-text. , however, is not a secure
PAP
authentication protocol. Man-in-the-middle attacks can easily determine the
remote access client's password. offers no protection against replay attacks,
PAP
remote client impersonation, or remote server impersonation.
Support Challenge Handshake Authentication (CHAP) Click in this check box to
activate , a challenge-response authentication protocol that uses to
CHAP MD5
hash the response to a challenge. protects against replay attacks by using
CHAP
an arbitrary challenge string per authentication attempt.
Support Microsoft CHAP Click in this check box if communicating with a peer
that uses Microsoft authentication protocol.
CHAP
Support Microsoft CHAP Version 2 Select this check box if communicating with a
peer that uses Microsoft Version 2 authentication protocol.
CHAP
PPP Compression
The Compression Control Protocol ( ) is responsible for configuring,
PPP CCP
enabling, and disabling data compression algorithms on both ends of the point-
to-point link. It is also used to signal a failure of the compression/ decompres-
sion mechanism in a reliable manner.
For each compression algorithm (BSD and Deflate), select one of the following
from the drop-down list:
Reject Selecting this option rejects
connections with peers that use the com-
PPP
pression algorithm. If Reject is activated, throughput may diminish.
Allow Selecting this option allows
connections with peers that use the com-
PPP
pression algorithm.
Require Selecting this option insures a connection with a peer using the com-
pression algorithm.
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