A.The machines that do not work:
1.Compaq Deskpro 590 (Intel Pentium 90) using a USRobotics 56K V90
external modem on Com1. 750 M IDE drive one partition with DOS 6.22. The
Arachne.cfg file for this machine is shown below.
2. Home built Intel Pentium 100 on a genaric mobo. Same modem as above
and some others. 1 G hard drive triple boot: Win31, Win95 (retail), and
Linux.
B.The machines that work :
1. Home built Intel Pentium 100 on a genaric mobo. NewCom 56K (56ifxvC
upgraded forV90) on Com2. 4G HDD (FAT32) with a dual boot: Win95 OSR2.5
(0.6G), and Linux (3.4G).
2. Home built Cyrix MII 200 on a M571 TX -Pro II mobo. Modem as in A.1.
above. 8.2G HDD one partition (FAT32) using Win95 OSR2.5. This is my
primary working machine and has a wide range of software on it.
I configured each machine individually for Arachne. I tried the modem
from A1. above in A.2. A2 is down with a sick power supply at the
moment.
A question on protocol. When asked for the config. file do you really
want it all or should I take out the "boiler plate"?
Thankyou for answering.
Jack Cotter
----------------------------
Arachne.cfg *** Are My edits
----------------
;This is ARACHNE.CFG for Arachne version 1.4+
;(tested with Shiva PPP server)
;If you want to connect with typical PPP dial-up, start with this file.
;This configuration file can be completely controled from Arachne setup.
;Run "setup" if you are not sure what to change in configuration file.
[profile]
Profile FASTPC.ACF
Connection @epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG
Hangup @termin.com 0x60>NUL
;Connection @cmd ... command cmd will estabilish connection
;Connection READY ... connection is permanent, packet driver in
AUTOEXEC...
;Connection NUL ... do not start TCP/IP (run "arachne -c" to force
this)
[dialer]
DialPage file:ppp_init.htm
Dialer @MINITERM.EXE>PPP.LOG
TerminalWindow @MINITERM.EXE
UseTerminal Yes
Port 1
Irq 4
Base Default
Mode 8N1
Speed 115200 *** I've tried lower
InitString ATZ *** I've tried many
DialString ATDT
PhoneNumber *** My ISP phone number
Autologin Yes
WaitFor1 login:
Response1 jcotter
WaitFor2 Password:
Response2 *** mypassword
WaitFor3
Response3
WaitFor4
Response4
PPPusername jcotter
PPPpassword *** mypassword
;Base values: Default|0x??? (eg. 0x3e8)
;Mode values: databits/parity/stopbits (eg. 8N1)
[tcp/ip]
IP_Address PPP
IP_Grab IP address set to
NameServer *** ISD's name server
AltNameServer ***ISD's alt. name server
Gateway 0.0.0.0
AltGateway 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG
;IP_Address n.n.n.n ... fixed IP address
;IP_Address PPP ... for PPP.EXE and PPPD.EXE (get address from
PPP.LOG)
;IP_Address BOOTP ... WatTcp attepmts to use BOOTP protocol
;IP_Address %enviro% ... Minuet style (enviroment variable, like %MYIP%)
;IP_Address WATTCP ... use ONLY values from TCPconfig (variable
"my_ip")
;IP_Grab string ... prefix of IP address in PPP.LOG ("IP address
set to")
;TCPconfig filename ... name of WatTcp configuration file (often
WATTCP.CFG)
[mail] *** I've tried it with the mail configured. Mail is fine on
other machines
SMTPserver mail.provider.com
POP3server mail.provider.com
POP3username user
POP3password xxxx
KeepOnServer No
eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PersonalName Arachne User
Organization Arachne Fan Club
TimeZone +0000
UseSignature Yes
SignatureFile SIGN.TXT
MailEncoding MIME
MailSortOrder DateSnt
NoHELO No
KillSent No
MailIdxTemplate idxhead.htp
ForwardString1 ----- Forwarded message begin -----
ForwardString2 ------ Forwarded message end ------
ReplyString On %s, %s wrote:
MyCharset US-ASCII
MailBodyEncoding 7bit
;MailSortOrder values: DateRcv|DateSnt|Address|Subject
[internet]
HTTPproxy proxy.provider.com:8080
UseProxy No
HomePage http://home.arachne.cz/
SearchPage http://search.arachne.cz/
SearchEngine http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=
FTPusername user
FTPpassword xxxxxx
FTPhost ftp.provider.com
FTPpath /home/user/
AcceptCharset ISO-8859-1,*
[system]
Hotlist .\HOTLIST.HTM
History .\HISTORY.LST
CookieFile .\COOKIES.LST
CacheIndex .\CACHE.IDX
CachePath CACHE\
Cache2TEMP No
MailPath MAIL\
DownloadPath DOWNLOAD\
[misc]
LoadImages Yes
Frames Yes
FastJPEGs No
RefreshDelay 5
ScreenSaver 10
LocalIcons No
ESC Exit
F3key file:*.htm
AutoF3key Yes
BigFont No
ScrollBarSize 14
ScrollBarStyle NextStep
Colors 11 0
MouseColors 15 15
VirtualScreen 5000
ScreenMode Auto
SmoothScroll Yes
ScrollStep 50
BgColor #000000
Text #F0F0F0
Link #00FF00
ExitOnHangup No
Buttons buttons
ASCIIwidth 78
HTMLtext #000000
HTMLbgColor #C4C4C4
HTMLlink #0000C4
;AfterPOP3 smtp:
;AfterSMTP file:mail.htm
ShiftF1 file://doc/howto.htm
ShiftF2 file://oops\*.??k
ShiftF3 file:*.*
ShiftF4 file://examples\newfile.htm
ShiftF5 http://www.yahoo.com/
ShiftF6 http://www.wired.com/
ShiftF7 http://www.altavista.com/
ShiftF8 http://www.hotbot.com/
ShiftF9 http://www.slashdot.org/
ShiftF10 file://readmail.dgi
AltTab No
EditHotlistEntry Yes
Autodial No
UseCID No
UseCDescr No
AltSysFont 0
Index *.htm
FontShift 0
Multitasking Yes
XMS4allGIFs 1024
XMS4oneGIF 270000
;ScrollBarStyle values: NextStep|Windows|Arachne|X
;BgColor,Text,Link values: #RRGGBB (hexadecimal values of red, green and
blue)
;VirtualScreen value: vertical number of pixels, 0 disables virtual
screen.
;ScreenMode values: Auto|Smart|Nice
;BodyArachne values: System|Default|All
;Colors values are <ink 0..15> <paper 0..15>
[security]
SavePasswords Yes
Cookies Yes
HTTPreferer Yes
;FakeFTPeMail user@domain
[not-yet-implemeted]
NNTPserver news.provider.com
IRCserver irc.provider.com:6667
IRCchannel #arachne
IRCnick arachne_user
IgnoreBackground No
[auto-added]
---------------------------------------------
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Jack Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 4:45 PM
Subject: PPP link down
> Jack,
>
> Do all the machines have the same processor, or are some machines
> faster/slower than the others? If so, on which machines does Arachne
work
> and on which machines does Arachne not work? Are all the hard drives
set up
> the same way on all machines with the same programs in the same
directories
> on each machine? Did you copy ARACHNE.CFG from one machine to the
others or
> did you configure each one individually?
>
> Post your ARACHNE.CFG from the machines that don't work and provide
the
> particulars for each of the machines. ("x" out your password in the
.CFG
> files.)
>
> Since you connect, the problem probably isn't with the COM port.
>
> Roger Turk
> Tucson, Arizona USA
>
> Jack Cotter wrote:
>
> >>I have Arachne on four machines. It works fine on two of them and
> doesn't work on the other two. Dial-up and connection to my ISP is
> normal, ID and password are accepted. When I enter F7 the PPP link
goes
> down. No IP address shows up in the PPP log. Can't see any difference
in
> the configuration files. Any Ideas?<<
