Re: PPP dialer for Win 3.1

Dan Graupman (graupman@elnet.com)
Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:45:42 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Jacob Suter wrote:

> > Does anyone know of a better winsock dialer for win 3.1x? I am having
> > alot of trouble with trumpet. Anyone using trumpet can not get to sites
> > like home.netscape.com or abc.com. Win95 PPP works like clock work. Is
> > anyone out there using Trumpet for win 3.1x successfully?
>

I know that a number of my customers are using Trumpet to connect to
my PM without any problems. Set MTU=552 TCP MSS=512

> Trumpet 2.x has some major problems with the fact it didn't properly
> support (or at all, I can't remember) secondary DNS servers. If your

After entering the primary number, hit the space bar and enter the
secondary number. Not the most obvious way to do it, but it seems to work.

> primary is busy or in la-la land, they'd be SOL. A couple of my more
> techhead 3.1 users have thrown on Trumpet 3.0 with good results.
>
> Another thing for my post earlier - and hell its on topic here too:
> Trumpet 2.x works great when my users call my FreeBSD system, but it's
> looney on the PM... doesn't make much sense, does it?
>

No it doesn't, since we don't seem to have any problems with that here.

Dan Graupman
Electro Link Network, Inc. graupman@elnet.com
P.O. Box 711, 109B E. North St., Phone: 1-708-365-0807
Elburn, IL 60119-0711 http://www.elnet.com