Hello: As many of us have already heard, and as many of us have already found out for ourselves, some modems just don't work with LSppp even though they work fine with EPPPD.
Following up on a suggestion someone recently posted, I have just discovered tonight that LSppp can be made to work with a least one modem type that won't work with LSppp. So far I haven't experimented with other modem types that won't work with LSppp. The particular modem type in question is a US Robotics Sportster external 14400 bps. This one works fine with EPPPD, but not with LSppp. I have found that only the dialer functions in LSppp won't work with this modem type. I can dial up and log on to my ISP by using COMTOOL, a utility that comes with Arachne. Once logged on to my ISP I can simply load LSppp with no parameters, and LSppp will get the DNS addresses and the gateway and the IP number. These funtions of LSppp worked even though the dialer and login functions of LSppp didn't work. I used an alternative utility, in this case COMTOOL, for doing the dialup and login phase of establishing my TCP/IP connection. The same technique might work with other real modems that don't cooperate with the dialing functions of LSppp. Instead of COMTOOL we might well be able to use some other alternative dialing utility for doing the dialup and login functions. Once you get logged on to your ISP by using a dialer utility, you might be able to simply load LSppp with no parameters for doing all of the rest of the TCP/IP negotiations. In the case the modem in question, this worked just fine for me. I hope others will have success in trying the same technique with other real modem types. All the best, Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
