I just thought I'd share an interesting bit of data on an ongoing trouble
area for us (and most on this list) - occasional Win95 PPP login
negotiation problems...
An interesting thing happened yesterday... we had a customer with the
normal Win95 PPP login negotiation problems. While trying to isolate it,
we had the customer call into the last line of the hunt. He logged in
perfectly. Sent him back to the top of the hunt, login failed again. I
looked and the last (newest) Portmaster is running:
Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.3.2c2
The others are running:
Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.3.2b3
System uptime is 128 days 10 hours 40 minutes
and
Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.3.2b3
System uptime is 132 days 7 hours 22 minutes
What you see with debug on the older versions are "UNKNOWN" PPP packets
(frequently posted to this list). When the customer disables all the
"Enable Software Compression" and other stuff in his DUN, it will work with
all Portmasters (this is the normal fix we use for this problem).
My question: Livingston - is there anything changed between the ComOS
versions above that would cause this (better) behavior? Ie. - do you
now recognize the "unknown" packets and deal with them in some way?
Has this "fix" continued to the latest ComOS (3.3.3?)?
I've not had time to do any real testing beyond this one customer to see if
it is always repeatable.
Thanks.
Derric
-- Derric Scott Scott Network Services, Inc. P. O. Box 361353 derric@scott.net (205)987-5889 Birmingham, AL 35236