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echo: irex
to: Kevin Klement
from: mark lewis
date: 2011-01-21 18:38:38
subject: packet/session

KK> packet/session passwords

 KK> I have a uplink that /just/ has a packet password set for me, no
 KK> session  password. If I use that packet password /only/ I can't
 KK> connect with him. 

 KK> If I use that password in the session password option, I can
 KK> connect with  him. 

 KK> Why do I have to use his packet password in my session password
 KK> option to  connect with him? Makes no sense to me.

because on some connections, the initial traffic is a packet and that
packet must have the pasword... in that initial packet, it is called a
session password... this is also why both must be the same...

)\/(ark

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