One problem was that the pcmcia cards that some of our customers had were
incompatible with the portmaster. Specifically the AT&T and Motorola brands.
The Megahertz models (with the xjack) worked great and you can actually see
a misleading CONNECT 57600 prompt too. That was one problem that caused
DNS failures. Note, some of our customers could connect at 14.4 with their
AT&T brands, yet, they had to type in IP addresses rather than use DNS to
resolve host names. The Megahertz cards worked fine.
Another solution was winsock. We had to totally redo our login.cmd, our
trumpet winsock.ini needed some tweeking, and we had to limit our passwords
to 8 characters rather than 16 (even though I compiled radiusd to handle
16 characters). Some of you may argue with me on that point, but I can tell
you from countless hours that radiusd cannot handle more than 8 to possibly
10 characters.
Our final solution to our problems was disenabling SNMP (broadcast and
listen) and actually saving our values (we use FreeBSD, so we don't have
pmconsole on our end except on our windows machines which sometimes crashes)
with a save all command at the prompt.
Elya.
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Elya S. Kurktchi Simply Internet
Vice President-Systems Admin 7841 Balboa Avenue, Suite 101
elya@inetworld.net San Diego, CA 92111
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