Steve, are you still there?
My appologes to those who have lost the interest on this subject.
Steve, if you want we may continue the discussion out of the list.
Your "simple" problem is very interesting me and I would like to bring
it to some logical conclusion.
Well, I've read your emails once again and found a detail that hasn't
attract the attention anybody of us. You wrote:
>
>Compuserve and Freewweb are assigning a new IP. On exit from Arachne, the
>Arachne system variables all show values (MYIP, REMIP, NETMASK, PEERMRU --
>though Freewwweb assigns 0.0.0.0 to NETMASK).
>
I beleive NETMASK=0.0.0.0 could be the original reason all of your
following problems. Any negotiations between PPP interfaces with this
NETMASK should be disabled. I don't now exactly how PPP protocol is
working but probably I'm not so far of the truth. I've heared, some ISPs
use the Microsoft's software on their servers (in my region it is right
certainly) and our "big friend" Bill Gates gave instructions for his
programmers to include in authenticating protocols some features
NON-DOCUMENTED anywhere in open papers. When you dial up from any
Windows dialer you have no problems but it may be not right for other
platforms.
OK, to set correct NETMASK you can try
Connection @epppd.exe netmask 255.255.255.0>>PPP.LOG instead of
Connection @epppd.exe >>PPP.LOG
Regards,
Sergei.
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