Configure Peer authentication

This is optional. Configure it only if you want to check the peer's name.

To set the assumed name of the remote system for authentication purposes click the Peer authentication ... button, enter the name in the Remote name edit box and click the OK button.

If the remote name is not empty, the name reported by the peer is checked against this name and connection will be refused if the reported name is different.

If you don't know what name is reported by the peer you can learn the name by entering an arbitrary name. Then try to establish the connection. After it failed right click the system tray icon and from the menu select the Connection Information entry. The Connection Information dialog is shown. Look for log entries similar to the following;

pppd[4522]: Certificate verification error: CN (ReportedName) != peer_name (EnteredName) pppd[4522]: -> Alert: unknown CA [ERROR 404] Authentication failed: closing connection to 'test' You can now see the name reported by the peer as ReportedName.