IBM SC30-3681-08 manual Lowercase, Remote Authenticationº in Using and Conguring Features

Con®guring PPP Interfaces (Talk 6)

Notes:

1. While the ªcaseº that you use for names and passwords sent to the

peer on the link are preserved for this product, interoperability with other

vendor products is easier if all names and passwords are entered in

lowercase.

2. Other implementations may not handle names with the same maximum

length as supported in this product. The only indication is a message

from the authenticator stating that there is a bad name. If you receive

this type of message, try shortening the routerid.

3. This command sets the name of the local router. Use the talk 6 add

ppp-usercommand at the Config> prompt to add each remote user to

the local data base, if you want to use the local data base to track the

remote users. The alternative is to con®gure the external AAA

authentication server that is described in the chapter ªUsing Local or

Remote Authenticationº in Using and Con®guring Features.

Note: The external AAA authentication server cannot be used by

MS-CHAP.

Example:

set name

PPP 7 Config>set name

Enter Local Name: [ ]? newyork

Password:

Enter password again:

PPP Local Name = newyork

ncp parameters

Sets the basic operational parameters for most NCPs.

Note: Although you access this command through a particular interface,

this command will reset the parameters for all PPP interfaces.

Example:

set ncp parameters

Config tries [20]

NAK tries [10]?

Terminate tries [10]?

Retry timer (mSec) [3000]?

Con®g tries

Sets the number of con®gure-request packets sent by NCP to a

peer station to attempt to open a PPP link. The range is 1 to 100.

The default is 20.

This action indicates the desire to open an NCP connection with a

speci®ed set of con®guration options. The retry timer starts after a

con®gure-request packet is transmitted. This is done to guard

against packet loss.

NAK tries

Sets the number of con®gure-nak (nak = not acknowledged)

packets that NCP sends to a peer station while attempting to open

a PPP link. The range is 1 to 100. The default value is 10.

Upon receiving con®gure-request packets with some unacceptable

con®guration options, NCP sends con®gure-nak packets. These

packets are sent to refuse the offered con®guration options and to

suggest modi®ed, acceptable values.

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