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- From: Steve Rogers <sr0@GANet.NET>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
- Subject: Re: What is an alignment error?
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 02:11:27 -0500
- Organization: BrightNet
- Message-ID: <3119A21F.338E@GANet.NET>
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- I get the same thing and I'll take a stab at the answer. When I connect to my ISP
- using clear text, I enter the username, password, and the ppp command to start ppp.
- At that point, the ISP's software sends me a message in clear text that says it
- will match my settings, blah, blah-blah, your ip address is blah.blah.blah.blah,
- etc. In terminal login, I see that message along with the first of the ppp
- packets/frames. I click on done (or whatever that button is) and the two computers
- start talking. In my script, I wait for certain words (e.g. "Username") and then
- respond with my settings. As far as my script is concerned, it is done as soon as
- it sends the characters "ppp" and expects to see the ppp packets/frames start
- coming across the line. However, the ISP then sends that informational message
- which is not a ppp frame. This confuses the hell out of NT because it can't
- determine where the frame starts or ends, so it considers the text garbage (as it
- should) and calls it an alignment error since it can't align the frame's data into
- recognizable information. It then sees the real packets/frames and continues your
- connection.
-
- Sound plausible?
-
- Steve Rogers
- sr0@ganet.net
-
-
-
- Craig Shrimpton wrote:
- >
- > Greetings,
- >
- > I have been using NT RAS for PPP dialup to an Internet account with good
- > results. In the beginning, I would use the clear text terminal login which
- > worked fine. The other day I created a switch.inf entry to automate the login
- > but now I get an alignment error when I use the script. After a miniute or
- > so, the error is corrected and I can continue.
- >
- > My question is: What is an alignment error and why would I get it only when
- > using a login script?
- >
- > Thanks,
- >
- > Craig
- >
- > ===================================================================
- > Shrimpton Consulting Orbit Systems
- > Craig Shrimpton Email: craigs@os.com
- > 17 Monroe Avenue Phone: (508)753-8776
- > Worcester, MA 01602 http://www.os.com/
-