User's Manual Part 2
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GN-B46B Wireless Broadband Router User Guide
& Other WAN Type of the WAN configuration:
PPPoE
n ISP Name, User ID, Password, Service Name, AC Name, DNS1 and
DNS2 Address, DNS Domain Name
Those information are provided by your ISP company.
n Authentication Type
You may choose between “Auto”, “CHAP” and “PAP”. The default is set
to “Auto”.
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol(CHAP). This is the
preferred method of authentication for PPP dialup links. With CHAP, the
server sends a challenge to which the remote router sends an encrypted
reply containing a secret key.
Password Authentication Protocol(PAP) is a simple authentication
protocol for PPP allowing a router to identify itself with another router by
sending a simple name and password combination. PAP is defined in
RFC1334.