Subject: 22. Does the Ascend support Caller-ID/ANI authentication?

Marc Hyman wrote about it:

> The feature is in beta test.  A "caller #" has been added to the
> connection profile.  When caller-id is being used a profile is selected
> by matching the incoming phone number with the field in the profile.
> A profile authenticated this way will *not* be re-authenticated using
> PAP or CHAP.
>
> If a local profile is not found a RADIUS request will be made using
> the phone number as the name with a magic password.  An attribute is
> passed to RADIUS with the request that is not passed with normal
> authentication requests.  This stops joe user from trying to 
> authenticate by guessing phone numbers.