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Join the Community Learning week WAN Basics!
Network class learning time of this phase: December 13th – December 18th.
Answer time of this class: December 15th, 8 AM - December 16th, 4 PM (UTC+0).
Class topic
Post 1. PPP Link Establishment Process
A PPP link is established using LCP negotiation and NCP negotiation between two communicating devices...More
Post 2. PAP Authentication
The Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) is a two-way handshake authentication protocol that transmits passwords in plain text. PAP authentication is performed during initial link establishment...More
Post 3. CHAP Authentication
The Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) is a three-way handshake authentication protocol. CHAP transmits only user names but not passwords, so it is more secure than PAP...More
Post 4. WAN basics - PPPoE
PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a link layer protocol that encapsulates Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames into Ethernet frames. PPPoE enables multiple hosts on an Ethernet to connect to a broadband remote access server (BRAS)...More
Post 5. PPPoE vs IPoE – the difference between them
PPPoE and IPoE are widely used in the terminal accessing scenario. Though both of them are used to authenticate the access users, there is much difference between PPPoE and IPoE...More
Class Q&As
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