Re: BSpro can't connect (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 11:27:17 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Jon Lewis shaped the electrons to say...
>I'll restate my question...why doesn't the PM do any of the decoding that
>Bill Lutton's decoder script does? I had no idea what was in the output

1. It bloats the code. Extraneous features like that are shunned, the PM-2,
25, IRX, OR all have 512K flash, and 1/4 of that is used for configs.

This is the kind of thing that is better left to Perl scripts on a host.
They are far more flexible, and can be updated quickly and customized.

>bugs me even more. In my earlier post today, nobody caught the fact that
>I'd forgotten the strategic placement of quotes. i.e.:

Actually I noticed that immediately - I have your first letter sitting here
waiting for a reply. Of course, this is today...

>Are there clear instructions somewhere on setting up a pm2 to dial into a
>pm2, authenticate with PAP, and act as the Internet gateway for the
>originating pm2's network? Does this require a static ptp address? It

That's a perfectly normal location table entry. Nothing special. My OR
is doing that right now for my LAN at home. And it is identical on the PM-2.

-MZ

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