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From: Jamey Maze
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:47

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Could someone explain to me the benefit of PAP/CHAP authentication to a
user of a dial-up end-node (e.g., a workstation dialing into a company
LAN)? Doesn't it just provide a second level of authentication? And I
suppose it also allows you to enforce a particular IP address on the
dial-in user. Is that pretty much it?

Thanks!

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