Re: Occasional PM3 connection problems

Sherwood Portmaster-List (livingston@iav.com)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:27:24 -1000 (HST)

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Charles Scott wrote:

>
> All:
> We stared seeing occasional problems with connections to the PM3's
> here where the user gets connected but can't authenticate. Last night
> one of our techs reported that a couple times when he was connecting in
> with a terminal program that the unit did not come up with the sign on
> message and "host:" prompt but instead just started by displaying
> "login:" without anything in front of it. I get the funny feeling that
> this is somehow related to some of the wierd ppp connection problems in
> that if the PM3 is going straight to the "login:" prompt it may not be
> able to catch authentication frames.
> This is hapening on a group of 3 PM3's (5 PRI's in one group and one PRI as
> another hunt group) that get close to being full at prime time (the last
> modem shows 1 call). ComOS is 3.5.1b20. Any thoughts?

What ports? As MZ noted you may have not set some ports to your login
prompt, either that or the authentication is not network/login ... or
similar.

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Sherwood