Re: WinNT4 delay loggin onto PM2

John Storms (jstorms@livingston.com)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 07:51:57 -0700

At 04:37 PM 7/27/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I have a problem with some customers who use Windows NT4 and Motorola
>Bitsurfer Pros to log into our PM2. The Username and password
>authentication is very quick, but the NT box then tries to "Register"
>itself!? This delays the login process by about 10 to 20 seconds via ISDN,
>which they are understandably unhappy about. Now, I've checked the RAS
>configuration on their machines, and they *only* have TCP/IP ticked on
>dialup networking. I have also debugged the LCP data on the Portmaster and
>I am seeing the following output eight times! :
>
>Sending LCP_PROTOCOL_REJECT to port S21 of 16 bytes containing:
>08 ba 00 10 80 fd 01 04 00 0a 12 06 00 00 00 01

Here's my best shot at breaking this one down. Looks like there might be a
problem with 1) Multi-Link or with 2) Compression.

[08][ba][0010][80fd] [01][04][000a][12][0600000001]
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Data
| | | | | | | 0x12=Multi-Link-Procedure, (RFC 1700,
"Assigned Numbers", p.202)
| | | | | | Length = 10 bytes
| | | | | ID
| | | | LCP Configure Request
| | | 0x80fd=Compression Control Protocol, (RFC 1700, "Assigned
Numbers", p.199)
| | Length = 16 bytes
| ID (looks like you had alot of these)
LCP Protocol Reject

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