A little bit OT: an interesting POP

[Jay West]

Cameron wrote....
> Username:/login:/Login:
>
> Not your typical POP. I know who Level 3 is, and I do have an AOL login. 
> It's
> interesting, however -- I was just expecting 8-bit "garbage" and not an 
> actual
> prompt.

As I recall from foggy (possibly inaccurate) memory.... PPP supports "plain 
text" login before PPP is initiated, and also supports logging in after PPP 
begins "in stream". To be more precise, I recall that years ago our POPS 
gave login prompts. Some users client software would just start PPP 
immediately and authenticate in protocol, and others would actually send a 
typical login sequence and then start PPP.

As another scenario, I also seem to recall that some of our access systems 
prented a logon prompt and the user entered their userid and password, they 
would get a protocol prompt and would be able to type in the desired 
protocol (slip, ppp, shell, etc.) and then ppp negotiation would begin 
(depending on their selection).

Hence, I suspect your logon prompt is nothing unusual at all.

Jay