Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>
> The new ISP account is up and running fine. For your information,
> and ForWhatIt'sWorth, I found out the following:
>
> 3. The problem was - my new ISP has their server set up so that
> giving the bare "LOGIN Username" when connecting will allow the
> user to be given ONLY an SLIP connection - a PPP connection will
> NOT be allowed. The PPP connection will only be allowed if the
> NormalUsername "joeuser" is preceeded by a Capital P (e.g. only
> when LOGIN: is answered with "Pjoeuser" will the server authenticate
> for a PPP Connection).
> .
> 4. To do this in Arachne, it is only necessary to prepend a capital
> P to the username, in the PPP Section of ARACHNE.CFG......and then
> dial as usual. Once this is done, everything goes smoothly on to a
> successful PPP Connection.
Excellent work Gregy;
I have archived it in a safe place where I hope to remember to look. <G>
This will surely be very useful in the future.
- Clarence Verge
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