In message <199908290647.QAA26945@mallee.awadi>, Brett Lymn writes:
>My work is changing over from using an annex terminal server to using
>an outsourced dial-in pool.  I believe that the device handling the
>dial in will be a cisco router of some sort.  I have no clue as to how
>I should set up my ppp to talk to the cisco.  I have tried dialling in
>to the new service and I see LCP packets being fired at me from the
>other end.  We are supposed to be authenticating to a RADIUS server on
>our network but the mechanism is a bit of a mystery - all I get from
>the people setting it up is "in your win98 dial up networking you will
>be prompted for a username and password - just fill that in and it
>will work", clearly this is no use to me ;-)  Any one know what I need
>to set up here to make things work - PAP? CHAP?

Almost certainly PAP.  Set it up with PAP username and password, and no
connect script other than what you need to dial.

What useless people you must have setting it up.  You can tell them I said
so.  Any network admin that can't tell you what's going on shouldn't be
admin'ing the network.  ;-)

-s