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Explain three circumstances that would necessitate the use of PAP authentication in a point to point connection

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1. When the application doesn’t support CHAP.
2. Circumstances where it is necessary to send a plain text password to stimulate a login at the called device (remote host).
3. When there is occurrence of incompatibilities between different vendors of CHAP.

Titany answered the question on November 30, 2021 at 11:50

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