Re: Security problem in PPPoE connection

[Joe Shen <joe_hznm () yahoo com sg>]

> > What's your method to deal with such problem? Will
> CHAP in PPPoE help?
>
> That may help against password sniffing but won't
> help against sniffing 
> traffic by an active attacker once the session has
> been established.  
> Also, you'll have to revisit all CPE to explicitly
> disable PAP, or an 
> active attacker could still steal the password if he
> impersonates the 
> real PPPoE server.

If we enable CHAP on BRAS, is it enough that asking
subscriber to enable Chap on MS-windows dial
connection or Linux ?  Need we install some other
tools? 

Regards

Joe 

 



        
        
                
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