20 Jan
2016
20 Jan
'16
5:02 p.m.
On Jan 20, 2016, at 10:51 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
...
Yes, on any point to point circuit, which Multinet is. That is implemented at the routing
layer; the password exchange is done as part of the routing layer initialization exchange
(Routing Init and Routing Verify messages). See the routing architecture spec.
Note that this is a plain text password, so all the usual security limitations of
plaintext passwords apply. Also, the way it is set as the circuit attribute is not
specified in the standard -- a strange omission because the feature itself IS standardized
at the protocol level.
paul
Getting off topic - don't I remember that
there was a way to set a password on point-to-point DDCMP circuits? How (or rather, at
what level in the protocol stack) was that implemented ?
There is. I've never used it, but you can set passwords on circuits.