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Date:      Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:27:33 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        efinley@efinley.com, Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More PPP musings
Message-ID:  <19981031142733.C2302@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <363b44cc.3966466@mail.afnetinc.com>; from "Elliot Finley" on Sat Oct 31 17:13:45 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981030154012.318H-100000@beacon.synthcom.com> <363b44cc.3966466@mail.afnetinc.com>

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In the last episode (Oct 31), Elliot Finley said:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:40:35 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
> >I finally got my mgetty and PPP autoconfig problems all taken care
> >of (running under FreeBSD 2.2.6). Though I know that this possibly
> >might not be the right place to ask this, but a few users have asked
> >about the "Verifying username/password" dialog box under Win 95/NT
> >taking so long to come back and say "Connected". Oddly, the
> >negotiation happens very quickly and the link is ready to use
> >immediately (and works great).
>
> Same thing here...  We have 32 ports coming in through mgetty and
> user-ppp, "Verifying username/password" takes quite a while.  We also
> have 24 ports coming in through a PM3, "Verifying username/password"
> is pretty fast.  Not really sure what the difference is...

One great way to see where the problem is is to enable logging.  Add
"set log Phase Chat Connect LCP IPCP CCP tun command" to your ppp.conf
file, and dial into the modempool.  Then look at the logfile, paying
attention to the timestamps.  

I've seen two causes for delays during a win95 login process.  One was
due to a misconfigured DNS setup on the modempool itself (this will
make win95 pause at the "username/password" window), and the other was
due to having IPX and/or the "log into network" options enabled on the
client's end (this causes a pause at the "logging into the network"
window).

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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