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- From: harsh@teleport.com (Lee Bosch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: AMITCP 4.3 patch
- Date: 7 Apr 1996 11:05:24 -0700
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <4k9054$89h@kelly.teleport.com>
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- In <4jv0ap$41r@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> jwcj@rlb6000.scs.uiuc.edu (John Chen) writes:
-
- >Actually I found 4.3 to be quite easy to work with. It took me two
- >hours to make it work because I did not READ THE MANUAL on how to make
- >dynamic slip work. After I read it, I had it up and running in about
- >one minute. I have configured slip for Windows 95 and IMO AmiTCP4.3
- >is just about as easy to setup, and gives you more flexibility since you
- >can automate the login process to your provider via a few simple
- >commands fully explained in the manual whereas the last I looked there
- >was no obvious build-in way to do that on W95 (of course if you do I'd
- >like to know it since it'll help my brother a lot). BTW, 4.3 DID know
- >all my old configs. What's your setup? I'd be happy to help you get
- >4.3 up and running.
-
- I had to make the whole patch to 4.3 by hand. It was slow and painful
- and in the end I was rewarded with a configuration that was much more
- difficult to use than my 4.2 setup. There is nothing in the readme
- file that indicates how to get things rolling with PPP's built-in dialer
- (I'm not sure that the new bootpconfig will allow it).
- I'm seriously considering going back to the revised 4.2 bootpconfig as
- the new one is just too "flexible".
-
- >Recover it. It's better than 4.2. Login is much faster and easier now
- >for me, and you can set MRU and MTU separately if you want. I also like
- >the new config program better than the older one.
-
- The new config program is the roughly the same as the old one. The
- problem is that the author obviously didn't use PPP very much as the
- configuration is like a lot of those backwards programs that spend
- kilobytes of configuration files to get around writing a 50 byte PPP
- dialer script.
-
- Lee Bosch
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