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Daniel L. Patterson (d-patter@cyberspc.mb.ca) wrote:

> Hello I have been trying to get amitcp to make a ppp connection with my
> provider but I cannot get the ppp.device online. The dialer connects to the
> server but as soon as amitcp is run it will not get the ppp.device online
> could some one help me out? I have been tring every thing. it is very
> frustrating.

Well, I'm happy to report that I got it to work now. It even seems to be 
able to talk to microsofts nonstandard NT servers. Try writing the 
author. He may want you to a log so better read the docs. :)

On 14-Apr-96 20:40:44, Daniel L. Patterson wrote about Amitcp & PPP.device, in
comp.sys.amiga.networking :
>Hello I have been trying to get amitcp to make a ppp connection with my
>provider but I cannot get the ppp.device online. The dialer connects to the
>server but as soon as amitcp is run it will not get the ppp.device online
>could some one help me out? I have been tring every thing. it is very
>frustrating.

Make sure you're ppp0.config is right.

Your startnet has to be modified quite a bit.  I'll put a copy of mine here:

------->
; log in
online amitcp:devs/ppp.device 0
echo " "
;
;THIS STUFF IS SPECIFIC TO ME...YOURS SHOULD HAVE YOUR LOGIN FOR TCP/IP
;
;echo login: ELN/harryo
;AmiTCP:bin/login -f ELN/harryo

FailAt 60

setenv SMTPAlwaysQueue NO

AmiTCP:bin/umask 022
;
AmiTCP:AmiTCP
echo "Local Address:"
echo " "
ECHO $ppp0iplocal
echo " "
echo "Remote Address:"
ECHO $ppp0ipremote
echo " "
echo "WaitForPort"
echo " "
WaitForPort AMITCP
echo "Configure loop-back device"
echo " "
AmiTCP:bin/ifconfig lo0 localhost
echo "Configure ppp0"
echo " "
AMITCP:bin/ifconfig ppp0 $ppp0iplocal $ppp0ipremote
echo "Add route to this host"
echo " "
AMITCP:bin/route add $ppp0iplocal localhost
;
;SEE MODIFIED STOPNET!
;
AMITCP:bin/stopnet script:
;
echo "Add route to the default gateway"
echo " "
AmiTCP:bin/route add default $ppp0ipremote
echo "SetENV HOSTNAME"
echo " "
setenv HOSTNAME `AmiTCP:bin/hostname`
Assign TCP: Exists > NIL:
echo "Mount TCP:"
echo " "
;
;YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE CHECK FOR TCP: BEING MOUNTED ALREADY AND FORCE IT
;YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ADD A FAILAT 50 STATEMENT PRIOR TO DOING THIS!
;
 Mount TCP: from AmiTCP:devs/Inet-Mountlist
EndIf
;
;THIS WAS IN THE ORIGINAL AND IT MUST BE REMMED OUT!
;offline ppp.device 0
;


Failat 10
--->

Any more ??s, lemme know.

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