Black Box 16 port, 24 port manual Password

•you wish to dedicate this line to a single remote user, and your user will be authenticated by the unit, or

•you are using the unit as a router (back-to-back with another unit).

‘Remote User’ is the name the unit will use to authenticate the port on the remote device (the opposite of the parameter ‘User’). Your unit will only authenticate the port on the remote device when PAP or CHAP are operating. You can enter a maximum of sixteen alphanumeric characters;

(in the cli, example syntax would be: set ppp I 6 ruser kevin)

When connecting together two networks, enter a dummy user name; e.g. CS_SALES.

Note If you want a reasonable level of security the user name and password should not be similar to a user name or password used regularly to login to the unit.

Remote Complete this field only if you:

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• have specified PAP or CHAP (security protocols) in the ‘Security’ field, and

• you wish to dedicate this line to a single remote user, and this user will be authenticated by the unit, or

• you are using the unit as a router (back-to-back with another unit). ‘Remote password’ means the following:

in the ‘Security’ field when you have specified PAP, ‘Remote Password’ is the password the unit will use to authenticate the remote device.

in the ‘Security’ field when you have specified CHAP, ‘Remote Password’ is the secret (password) known to both ends of the link upon which responses to challenges shall be based.

In summary ‘Remote Password’ is the opposite of the parameter ‘Password’. Your unit will only authenticate the remote device when PAP or CHAP are operating.

In both cases, you can enter a maximum of sixteen alphanumeric characters; (or, in the cli, e.g., set ppp li 1 rpassword ******)

Address/ This determines whether compression of the PPP Address and Control fields shall

Control take place on the link. The choices are ‘on’ or ‘off’; the default is ‘on’. For most

comp applications this should be enabled; i.e. ‘on’. In the cli example syntax would be: set ppp li 1 address_comp on

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