1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
4:08 p.m.
Cameron wrote....
Username:/login:/Login:
Not your typical POP. I know who Level 3 is, and I do have an AOL login.
It's
interesting, however -- I was just expecting 8-bit "garbage" and not an
actual
prompt.
As I recall from foggy (possibly inaccurate) memory.... PPP supports "plain
text" login before PPP is initiated, and also supports logging in after PPP
begins "in stream". To be more precise, I recall that years ago our POPS
gave login prompts. Some users client software would just start PPP
immediately and authenticate in protocol, and others would actually send a
typical login sequence and then start PPP.
As another scenario, I also seem to recall that some of our access systems
prented a logon prompt and the user entered their userid and password, they
would get a protocol prompt and would be able to type in the desired
protocol (slip, ppp, shell, etc.) and then ppp negotiation would begin
(depending on their selection).
Hence, I suspect your logon prompt is nothing unusual at all.
Jay