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Chapter 51 ISP Accounts
ISG50 User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 263 Configuration > Object > ISP Account > Edit
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Profile Name This field is read-only if you are editing an existing account. Type in the profile
name of the ISP account. The profile name is used to refer to the ISP account.
You may use 1-31 alphanumeric characters, underscores(
_), or dashes (-), but
the first character cannot be a number. This value is case-sensitive.
Protocol This field is read-only if you are editing an existing account. Select the protocol
used by the ISP account. Options are:
pppoe - This ISP account uses the PPPoE protocol.
pptp - This ISP account uses the PPTP protocol.
Authentication
Type
Use the drop-down list box to select an authentication protocol for outgoing calls.
Options are:
CHAP/PAP - Your ISG50 accepts either CHAP or PAP when requested by this
remote node.
CHAP - Your ISG50 accepts CHAP only.
PAP - Your ISG50 accepts PAP only.
MSCHAP - Your ISG50 accepts MSCHAP only.
MSCHAP-V2 - Your ISG50 accepts MSCHAP-V2 only.
Encryption
Method
This field is available if this ISP account uses the PPTP protocol. Use the drop-
down list box to select the type of Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE).
Options are:
nomppe - This ISP account does not use MPPE.
mppe-40 - This ISP account uses 40-bit MPPE.
mppe-128 - This ISP account uses 128-bit MMPE.
User Name Type the user name given to you by your ISP.
Password Type the password associated with the user name above. The password can only
consist of alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9). This field can be blank.
Retype to
Confirm
Type your password again to make sure that you have entered is correctly.
Server IP If this ISP account uses the PPPoE protocol, this field is not displayed.
If this ISP account uses the PPTP protocol, type the IP address of the PPTP server.
Connection ID This field is available if this ISP account uses the PPTP protocol. Type your
identification name for the PPTP server. This field can be blank.
Service Name If this ISP account uses the PPPoE protocol, type the PPPoE service name to
access. PPPoE uses the specified service name to identify and reach the PPPoE
server. This field can be blank.
If this ISP account uses the PPTP protocol, this field is not displayed.
Compression Select On button to turn on stac compression, and select Off to turn off stac
compression. Stac compression is a data compression technique capable of
compressing data by a factor of about four.
Idle Timeout This value specifies the number of seconds that must elapse without outbound
traffic before the ISG50 automatically disconnects from the PPPoE/PPTP server.
This value must be an integer between 0 and 360. If this value is zero, this
timeout is disabled.