>Herbert Valliant wrote:
> I have been trying to install Arachne 1.66 without much success.
> After dial up, login and pressing F7 I get after a long pause
> "PPP link is down, driver is not installed"
If the login proceeds OK then fails, there's one thing I found that would
cause this problem reproducibly - Arachne needs to know what 'string' your
ISP sends with your dynamic IP address - otherwise how would she know which
bit of a long login screen to extract? And they *do* vary from the standard
string....
A standard 'out of the box' arachne.cfg config file has the lines ---
[tcp/ip]
IP_Address PPP
IP_Grab IP address set to
������������
My ISP (Freeserve, in the UK) returns the string 'Your IP address is
192.168.100.1' for example, so I needed the 'IP_Grab' config line changed to
[tcp/ip]
IP_Address PPP
IP_Grab Your IP address is
�������������
You can use a standard text editor to change the file (always take a backup
of an almost working config!)
I hope this works for you. One last thing, you can see this string returned
*only* after a sucessful login - if you can log in manually, the remote end
accepts your username & password and you get 'IP address set to .....'
followed by a string of 'gibberish' characters, that's the far end starting
PPP (ie establishing a connection & waiting for your machine to respond).
Good luck.
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