This sounds like you don't know what your DNS
("nameserver") is - if this is not set with EPPPD, it
will not connect.

LSppp just grabs your DNS from the server the way
Windows would if you connected in there (thats why I
nagged him to write LSppp, lol)
 - W0rm

--- Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I finally got the new USRobotics PCI hardware modem
> to dial and connect.  I was
> able to hear dialing with EPPPD and CHAT, and with
> EPPPD and MINITERM from
> within Arachne, but no IP connection.  But LSPPP
> managed to make the connection
> successful.  Bug in EPPPD that most users never see?
>  I still wonder why EPPPD
> was able to connect successfully with Diamond
> SupraExpress 56i (ISA) jumpered
> for COM4 (base 0x2e8) IRQ 5 but not with the
> USRobotics modem at base 0xd400
> IRQ 11.  Both these COM ports are nonstandard.
> 
> I guess I could configure Arachne either to use
> C:\LSPPP\WATTCP.CFG created by
> .BAT files, or to use environment variables MYIP,
> REMIP, NETMASK, PEERMRU,
> DNS1 and DNS2.  Or maybe Arachne wouldn't recognize
> all those variables other
> than MYIP?
> 
> COMTOOL, included with Arachne package, accessed the
> Diamond modem but would not
> access the USRobotics modem.  Conex 7.1 was able to
> access both modems, as was
> Commo75 (downloaded from Simtel).  Ralf Brown's
> RBCOM 3.46 was able to access
> the Diamond modem but not the USRobotics modem,
> while two other COMM programs
> downloaded from Simtel (Cyclone and Supcm12) didn't
> work with either.


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