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There are normally two telephone numbers for your ISDN telephone line. For certain types of ISDN service, such as AT&T Custom Point-to-Point, there is only one telephone number.
Many types of ISDN service do not include service profile identifiers (SPIDs). These include AT&T Custom Point-to-Point service and most types of ISDN service outside North America.
In many cases, the information your telephone company provides about the telephone switch for your ISDN service (such as an AT&T 5ESS or a Northern Telecom DMS-100) is separate from information about your ISDN service type (such as NI-1 or Point-to-Point). When you specify a "switch type" later in QuickStart, you'll specify both the switch type and the service type with a single setting. For example, setting Switch Type to NI-1 specifies National ISDN-1 service provided from any switch, and you do not need to specify the switch type separately. Similarly, setting Switch Type to AT&T Point-to-Point specifies both the switch type (AT&T 5ESS) and the service type (Point-to-Point) with a single setting.
The telephone number for connecting the Pipeline to the network is the telephone number of an ISDN device at the remote location, such as an Internet service provider or, if you are a telecommuter, your main office. Your Pipeline dials and connects to this remote device. The remote device then connects you to the rest of the network.
The login name you use to connect to the remote network may be different from the login name for your workstation, connecting to servers, and so on.
The password you use to connect to the remote network may be different from the password for your workstation, connecting to servers, and so on.
CHAP authentication requires passwords to be encrypted. Other kinds of password authentication, such as PAP, do not require encrypted passwords.