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Submenu PPP
12 bintec User's Guide
Field
Keepalives
Link Quality Monitoring
Table 2-1: PPP submenu fields
The A field contains the following selection options:
UTHENTICATION
Description
PAP
CHAP
Description
Activates the function PPP-Keepalive for
checking the reachability of the remote PPP
terminal. Possible values:
■
off (default value for dialup connection) -
deactivates keepalive.
■ on (default value for leased line) - activates
keepalive.
For the function PPP-Keepalive every three
seconds a packet is sent to the remote termi-
nal. If the packet is unanswered five times, nor-
mally the interface is set to down for leased line
connections and dormant for dialup connec-
tions.
Activates PPP Link Quality Monitoring as per
RFC 1989. Possible values:
■
off (default value)
■
on
Only necessary in exceptional cases, e.g. with
Nokia Communicator.
Meaning
➤➤
Only run PAP (PPP Password Authentica-
tion Protocol); the password is transferred
uncoded.
➤➤
Only run CHAP (PPP Challenge Hand-
shake Authentication Protocol as per RFC
1994); the password is transferred encoded.
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