To each his own.
Mury
mury@goldengate.net 612-574-2200 Office
GoldenGate Internet Services 612-574-2444 Fax
50% Swedish 50% Hungry ;)
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Phil Taylor wrote:
> Sorry but I (personally) consider this slightly bad advice.
>
> Adding &w to extra settings in Win95 means that every time the user
> connects, the current config is saved to the modems flash.
>
> As flash RAM only has a finite number of writes before it can fail you
> are best to just put &f (or &f`1) in extra settings, this resets the
> modem to (a) factory default but doesn't write anything to flash.
>
> As I said in my previous message, another way is force standard modem
> :-)
>
> Just my 2p
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
> > ----------
> > From: Mury Johnson[SMTP:mury@main.goldengate.net]
> > Sent: 18 August 1997 17:03
> > To: Gabriel Emerson
> > Cc: 'portmaster-users@livingston.com';
> > 'portmaster-radius@livingston.com'
> > Subject: Re: Win 95 DUN errors with PM2Er
> >
> >
> > Make sure you are running a recent version of ComOs and make sure you
> > are
> > using a good init string under extra settings in Win95. &f&w or &f1&w
> > depending on the customers modem. This fixes 85% of our customer
> > problems. If that doesn't work, check to see what protocols they have
> > installed and get rid of anything they don't need.
> >
> > Mury
> >
> > mury@goldengate.net 612-574-2200 Office
> > GoldenGate Internet Services 612-574-2444 Fax
> > 50% Swedish 50% Hungry ;)
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Gabriel Emerson wrote:
> >
> > > We run 3 PM2Er's here. Our users are intermittently receiving
> > "Dialup
> > > Networking Could Not Negotiate..." errors. It is taking them 6 or 7
> > tries
> > > to get in.
> > > I am using Dale Reed's RADIUS for NT to authenticate our users,
> > simple
> > > 2-line user/password entries for the assigned address users.
> > >
> > > This only started happening a few weeks ago. I have had some
> > success
> > > having our users re-install TCP/IP and Dialup Networking, upgrading
> > DUN to
> > > 1.2, getting rid of extraneous protocols, and making sure that the
> > > connectoid was only using TCP/IP, and not using Login to Network.
> > >
> > > Adding our DNS servers to their global DNS configuration is often
> > necessary
> > > to connect.
> > >
> > > This clears up the problem for some users, but there is a large
> > percentage
> > > still having trouble.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something somewhere?
> > >
> > > -Gabriel Emerson
> > > Micro Solutions Consulting
> > > <geme@baraboo.com>
> > >
> >
>