Re: Occasional PM3 connection problems

Charles Scott (cscott@freeway.net)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 23:05:43 -0400 (EDT)

Sherwood:
At MZ's suggestion I checked the configuration of our PM3's to see if I
could locate any ports not configured for host prompt, but could find
none. I went ahead and globally set all the ports again to prompt in case
there were some. I guess we'll have to wait and see if that's cleared
anything up. I am also working with our support department to determine
if we can survive changing the behavior of the PM's at this point.

Chuck

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Sherwood Portmaster-List wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Aloha from Paradise,
>
> Sherwood
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