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- From: peterson@visi.net (MIke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: ppp/dialscript problem
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 22:14:21 GMT
- Organization: Visionary Systems InterNetNews site
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-
- >I'm dealing with a minor problem getting my ppp/dialup connection going with
- > a commercial net provider. I would appreciate somehelp with this.
-
- >Apparently, there are three lines available from the one dialup phone
- >number. The prompt for the 1 line is "cs1.spa.xxx.xxx"; for the second,
- >"cs2.spa.xxx.xxx" and the third "cs3.spa.xxx.xxx". There is no way of
- >knowing which line is available at any given time. If I get cs1, and my
- >dialscript
- > containing this prompt is in my setup, I get a perfect connection. If I get
- >cs2, with the prompt for cs1 in my dialscript, I get a strange connection
- >that gives me illegible code, and I either have to wait for a "timeout" or
- >reboot to break the connection. If I reach cs2 and have the dialscript with
- >cs2 prompt set-up, I also get a perfect connection.The same goes for cs3.
-
- >I tried using the following for the line in my dialscript that looks for the
- >prompt: "cs1.spa.xxx.xxx|cs2.spa.xxx.xxx|cs3.spa.xxx.xxx". It doesn't work.
- >How can I fix this so that 1 dialscript will suffice for all three
- >connections or is it possible?
-
- >Thanks for any helpful advice.
-
-
-
- >Hank Duckman from the beautiful northwest New Jersey/ running A2000,
- >G'040@33, 16 megs ram, Picasso, Emplant, VLab, Opal
-
- Hi Hank,
- try to "WAIT "spa.xxx.xxx"" in the dial script. I think that the
- script will reconize the trailing edge of the string and won't care which port
- you connect to.
-
- Let me know if this works
-
- Biker Mike (peterson@visi.net)
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