Re: (PM) AT&T WinModem

John Nowack (john@tremont.dpc.net)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:47:59 -0500

>Okay Im no expert (yet) at reading this stuff, but lets see if we can walk
>thru it and try to find things that look WEIRD.
Actually, I only included it to show that the PPP negotiations were normal
and completed successfully.

>> Sending LCP_CONFIGURE_REJECT to port S3 of 7 bytes containing:
>> 04 02 00 07 0d 03 06
>> Sent to port S3: 9 bytes LCP Reject-2
>> Callback = 0x06
>
>a reject is not necessarily bad, what is that Callback thing? Does that
>mean the user is calling back trying to get the same ip #?
No. It is a Windows client asking for a dialback. They seem to try
that every time. I dunno if it is an option that defaults to on, or
what. It's just an annoyance.

>Just like you had My s3 has ESTABLISHED. So I assumed that when you got
>Connection Succeeded, that it should say ESTABLISHED, and all negotiation
>is done at this point, so I dont know why the pm 3 is still saying
>CONNECTING. Are you SURE the port in questions still says CONNECTING?
Yep. I just didn't think to capture that, but it will sit there showing
CONNECTING till the cows come home (or the user hangs up in disgust,
whichever comes first).

John

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