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 In article <830409626_OASIS_@compuserve.com>
  100710.1360@compuserve.com (Bruno Kozlowski) said:-

>Hello! I need a NOS guru...
>
>I'm trying to connect via NOS 0.42 POP3 version to a new provider here in
>Lille in France. This provider requires 2 things more than my Compuserve
>PPP link: Active negociation (I must begin to talk) and the PAP password
>authentication protocol.
>
>I'ts a "no script" provider, exactly the dial.txt only send init string to
>modem and then dials the number, and quits. The provider then does
>nothing, waiting for me to initiate PPP nego. I already found that for
>this to happen, I must have in the startup.nos the lines:
>
>    ppp pp0 lcp listen
>    ppp pp0 ipcp listen
>    ppp pp0 lcp open active
>    ppp pp0 ipcp open active
>
>But then the ppp status is: establishment phase, lcp: open, ipcp: waiting
>for remote host to attempt open, and pap: closed. Nos sends some data to
>the modem (I saw this by replacing the modem by a minitel terminal) but
>nothing happens with the provider... this one waits only a few seconds
>before to go to a "timeout-no authentication" screen, where you only can
>hangup.
>
>PAP: as I don't know nothing about this, I tryed every related command,
>it's set like this: (always in the startup.nos)
>
>    ppp pp0 pap user bkozlowski MyPassWord
>    ppp pp0 lcp local authenticate pap
>    ppp pp0 lcp remote authenticate pap
>
>But in the ppp status (ppp pp0) the PAP status is always closed. The only
>way to open it (and the ppp status goes to "authentication phase") is when
>I tried the logon without composing the number... I think that then the
>modem is in command mode, with local echo, and the character strings ppp
>sends come back to him (the status says that in the IN/OUT counter,
>otherwise the IN counter was always 0).
>
>And I sit there, not knowing what to do next... Help me please if you are
>a guru! The provider hotline says that on other platforms, Trumpet or
>MacPPP works automatically, without any special configuration (only the
>logon name and password for pap) (and the DNS entrys etc... but it's not
>the PPP part of the problem). The Fine Manual says... well not much, and
>while experiencing around, I found many errors and/or innaccuracys... even
>the minimal inline help of NOS is not accurate, some valid subcommands are
>not listed. And I'm not sure if the "... open active" is not the same as
>"... open" or "... open zorglub", all this commands having the same
>result?
>
>TIA all, bye!
>__
>
>        /* Bruno Kozlowski 100710.1360@compuserve.com */
>        /* -==- A happy Falcon owner from france -==- */
>

I haven't a clue what to suggest except you try posting this in 
d.ip.support and d.ip.support.pc. Somebody there *must* know what to 
do.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk