CCNA FAQ: Point-to-Point WANs (Wide Area Network Connections) Question: Which of the following PPP authentication protocols authenticates a device on the other end of a link without sending any password information in clear text? a. MD5 b. PAP c. CHAP d. DES Answer: C. Of the possible answers, only PAP and CHAP are PPP authentication protocols. PAP sends the password as … [Read more...]
Configuring PPP
Configuring PPP Objectives: Configure and verify a basic WAN serial connection Configure and verify a PPP connection between Cisco routers The configuration of PPP without any options does not even deserve its own section. All you need to do is access the interface you would like to enable to run PPP and type the command encapsulation ppp. After you do that on both … [Read more...]