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Last Fail Cause: This field indicates the action that ended the
previous PPP session.
[No Valid PADO Recvd]:
The unit initiated a PPPoE
handshake but did not
receive a packet in reply
from the ISP.
[No Valid PADS Recvd]:
After the initial handshake,
the unit did not receive
a confirmation packet from the ISP.
[Stopped by User]:
The user stopped the connection (for example,
by changing the Configuration Manager settings
for the PPP interface.)
[No Activity]:
The PPP communication timed out, in accordance
with the timeout period specified on the PPP
Configuration page.
[Auth Failure]:
The ISP could not authorize the connection based
on the user name
and/or password provided.
[PADT Recvd]:
The ISP issued a special packet type to terminate
the PPP connection.
[VC down]:
The Virtual Circuit
between the unit and
the ISP
is down.
[Internal failure]:
A system software failure occurred.
DNS: This is the IP address of the DNS server (located
with your ISP) used on this PPP connection.
SDNS: The IP address of the secondary DNS server
(located with your ISP) used on this PPP connection.
Security Protocol: This field indicates the type of PPP security your
ISP uses:
[PAP] (Password Authentication Protocol)
[CHAP] (Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol).
Login Name: This is the name you use to log in to your ISP each
time this PPP connection is established.
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