Security problem in PPPoE connection

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sun Mar 12 19:50:45 UTC 2006


On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:32:26 +0100
Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> 
> * Joe Shen:
> 
> > What's your method to deal with such problem? Will
> > CHAP in PPPoE help?
> 
> AFAIK, CHAP does not authenticate the terminal server, either, so it
> won't stop all attacks.
> 
CHAP can be bidirectional.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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