<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 16, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Alan DeKok wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You are trying to authenticate a modem connection... which means you</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">can't use it until it's authenticated.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Which means you can't use it</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">to get data from the other end to do the authentication.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Maybe I'm confused by your description, but what you described is</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">impossible</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Let me take another stab at describing it and maybe it'll help.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The modem dials out to the Cisco modem bank, the modem bank (i am guessing here, as i am not this far) is configured to authenticate against Radius. Radius is configured to talk to Mysql and uses a query that checks the username/password, based on the exit status it accepts or denies the connection request to the modem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As i said my PPP knowledge is weak, but isn't what i described part of the PAP/CHAP handshake process that Radius is configured to use? Please correct me if i am mistaken.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks, </DIV></BODY></HTML>