Re: PAP Negotiations -- SCREWED

Allan Jacobsen (allan@internet.dk)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 08:26:15 +0100

Brian Shellabarger wrote:
>
> Many many many many many of our users who are using PAP to negotiate their
> connection are having problems getting rejected. The PM is rejecting their
> user information. However, if the user hangs up and redials enough times,
> it will eventually let them in. This problem isn't limited to Win95. We've
> seen it with Microsoft's dialer for Windows 3, Netscapes Dialer, and
> Trumpet Winsock as well. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
No.
> We've got some *really* frustrated customers at the moment, and I don't
> have anything to tell them!

I always find the reason when I telnet into the portmaster and write:

set console
set debug 0x51

and 90% of the problems are users who have entered the wrong password.
It always works when you can say "the third letter of your password is
not a capital B nut a small b".

TIA

-- 
Allan Jacobsen  <allan@internet.dk>
System administrator, Internet Danmark