Re: "Can't negotiate compatible protocol" errors...

Joel Sadler - Indentured Servant (null@alaska.net)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:26:32 -0900 (AKST)

We've started seeing that quite a bit lately as well. It *seems* that it
started after we installed about 10 new PM25's around the state running
COMOS 3.3.3, when before we were running 3.1.4 (old, but trusty!)

Joel Sadler --- Internet Alaska, Inc.
Indentured Servant
null@alaska.net

On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, mickey wrote:

> Hello folks..
>
> Have a problem which started occuring lately..people who log in using
> win95 get the above message and their connection is never established.
> It happens with other OS's and dialers as well but the other dialers
> usually don't give much of an error message (not that MS does but
> that's the most common OS these days). Anyway..I was wondering if
> anyone has had it beofer or could shed some light on things..here's
> some base info...
>
> our dynamic IPs are from one class C (207.32.94.0), our pm's ether
> addresses are on another (204.157.123.0 or 207.32.89.0) and the
> reported addresses on the PMs are 207.32.93.10 (static IPs on
> 207.32.93.0 among others). It happens on both dynamic and non-dynamic
> IP customers and it doesn't always happen. I've seen some debug 0x51
> logs and it seems that the remote machine isnt' replying to the PM's
> configure reqeusts in time. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> please reply to mickey@intr.net
>
> thanks again
>
> mickeY
>