13 Interactions with other PPP implementations

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13.1 Trumpet (for MSDOS) and the connection simply terminates.A: Trumpet does not like any VJ headercompression. Use the pppd option "-vj" to turn it off.

13.2 I am using dp-3.1.2 and can't do anything but ping and nslookup.A: There is a bug in the 3.1.2 version of dp. Pleaseget the 3.1.2a or later file from the dp ftp home siteharbor.ecn.purdue.ecu. Until you can put the patch into dp,disable the vj header compression.

13.3 I can not connect to/with my Windows NT code (a.k.a. 'Daytona') A: Microsoft has chosen to support a non-standardauthentication protocol with Windows NT. That is their right to do soprovided that they have registered the protocol number with theIANA. (They have.) If the `accept only Microsoft encryptedauthentication' check box is set in the phone book entry, theconnection will not complete. This setting mandates that the Daytonasystem only exchange PPP authentication with another Microsoft PPPimplementation.

Linux does not support this authentication protocol.

If you have the option of changing the settings on the Daytona system then go to the Daytona Phone Book settings, advanced, security settings and choose either `Accept any authentication including clear text' to allow execution without authentication, or `Use clear text terminal login only' for PAP authentication, or `Accept only encrypted authentication' to allow CHAP authentication.

The Microsoft authentication sequence is a PAP style authentication with their encryption algorithm for the passwords. Normal PAP sends the passwords in clear text. This would violate their C2 security goals.

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