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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: ppp/dialscript problem
- Date: 05 Feb 96 12:28:30 +0500
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
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- On or about 05-Feb-96 07:12:55 hankduckman typed the following words about
- "ppp/dialscript problem". My reply is thus...
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- h> I'm dealing with a minor problem getting my ppp/dialup connection going w
- h> a commercial net provider. I would appreciate somehelp with this.
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- h> Apparently, there are three lines available from the one dialup phone
- h> number. The prompt for the 1 line is "cs1.spa.xxx.xxx"; for the second,
- h> "cs2.spa.xxx.xxx" and the third "cs3.spa.xxx.xxx". There is no way of
- h> knowing which line is available at any given time. If I get cs1, and my di
- h> containing this prompt is in my setup, I get a perfect connection. If I
- ge
- h> cs2, with the prompt for cs1 in my dialscript, I get a strange connection
- h> that gives me illegible code, and I either have to wait for a "timeout" or
- h> reboot to break the connection. If I reach cs2 and have the dialscript wit
- h> cs2 prompt set-up, I also get a perfect connection.The same goes for cs3.
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- h> I tried using the following for the line in my dialscript that looks for t
- h> prompt: "cs1.spa.xxx.xxx|cs2.spa.xxx.xxx|cs3.spa.xxx.xxx". It doesn't work
- h> this so that 1 dialscript will suffice for all three connections or is it
- h> possible?
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- h> Thanks for any helpful advice.
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- Just leave off the cs1, cs2, cs3 part. Use spa.xxx.xxx.
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