For the past couple of years I've been using the dospppd packet
driver, specifically epppdd.exe + chat, with all my DOS PPP
applications (wattcp, ncsa, ka9q) and am quite happy with it.
About a week ago, it was suggested to me that I try out the
new lsppp driver from http://members.tripod.com/~ladsoft/lsppp/
I tried it about six weeks ago, but couldn't get it to work at
that time, although I didn't spend that much with it.
Anyway, I have been using it for a few days and it seems to work
fairly well. I still can't get the built-in dialer to work at all
with any of the 5 dial-in lines that I can use. 4 of these use
PAP on CONNECT or you can "drop down" to a login, while the other
is login only. None of the logins are straight user/password (you
also have to enter something else). At first I used my terminal
program (Conex) as a dialer, but now use chat0.exe with the same
chatscr that I use with epppdd.
Lsppp supports dynamic DNS, which does work, although on one line
the peer sends the "wrong" (for DOS and Linux, anyway) nameserver,
which is not overidden by /N:"correct nameserver", which means I
can't use simulated bootp in this case, and must get the values for
wattcp.cfg and config.tel from IP-UP.BAT. (To run KA9Q on top of a
packet driver I have to do this anyway, although there is a small
utility for Yan which writes the values to autoexec.net without
using environment variables.)
The main advantage of lsppp is that it only occupies 28K of memory
(compared to about 80K for epppdd and 120K for etherppp), which seems
to be a concern for many people. For Arachne, since I use the resident
LAN method, I did not have to change my arachne.cfg:
[profile]
Profile FASTPC.ACF
Connection READY
Connection NUL
[tcp/ip]
IP_Address WATTCP
TCPconfig WATTCP.CFG
[mail]
...
Since everything is in wattcp.cfg, to use bootp I put myip=bootp
there.
Anyway, that's my preliminary report on lsppp.
Howard E.
Ottawa
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