Subject: ISDN connection to SUN from windows 95 PC From: Chris@cyberbury.net Date: 19 Sep 1996 18:56:46 EST

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  Hi Deepak,

  I've never wired 95 to a Sun box, but I think I've run across your
problem.  95 uses a Microsoft version of PPP that is non-standard
(shocking, eh?).  It often won't work with other flavors of PPP.  For
example, I built an ISP using Galacticomm's WorldGroup as the main
dialup servers.  We support PPP for everyone EXCEPT 95 because there was
no way to get 95 PPP to handshake with a standard UNIX-header PPP.  We
ended up having all our 95 clients use SLIP for a while, then switched
to a product called WorldSock that offers incredible throughput through
the use of a packet-tunneling protocol.

  Hope this helps,

  Chris Feola
  many boring titles follow
  WizOp, webmaster, Cyberbury
  Adjunct professor for new media, The Columbia Graduate School of
Journalism
  New Media Columnist, Quill Magazine
  Correspondent, The Cole Papers
  Business Editor, The Waterbury Republican-American

DA>This is Deepak Agarwal from Sun-Sentinel newspaper in South Florida. I need
DA>help, if you can. I recently got an ISDN line at home for our pagination sup
DA>for X-based applications. I have a windows 95 based PC serially connected to
DA>BitSurferPro ISDN modem from Motorola to ISDN line. I have configured that m
DA>correctly.

DA>The line is fine. Motorola and Bell South has checked and confirmed the
DA>configuration. I can login and use any BBS or go to any ISDN dial-in interne
DA>site but not to the SPARC 5 (having the ISDN Sbus card running Solaris 2.5)
DA>using single link PPP with in our company.

DA>I am using windows95 dial-up connection to dial into this machine. Since pas
DA>week or so, I have been working with SUN Support and Motorola to solve this
DA>issue. I have provided them  with logs from /var/opt/SUNWisdn, isdntrace aft
DA>had turned the detailed logging on the system but I am getting very little
DA>success.

DA>We are using SunISDN 1.0.3 with Solaris 2.5. We have CCI Denmark coming in
DA>everyday multilink from Denmark thru their SUN workstation with no problem.

DA>Thru windows95, I get a single link connection for good 40 secs. When I clic
DA>continue and then click OK on  verifying username and password dialog box in
DA>dial-up connection, I get rejected from the computer. Previously, I was runn
DA>CHAP, then PAP and now no authentication on SUNSupport's suggestion, same
DA>results with either tries. I am really frustrated?????? Uggh!!!

DA>Have you seen configuration like this..going from windows95 to SUN box. I wi
DA>highly appreciate, if you can share that info from your vast knowledge base.


DA>Thanks,

DA>Deepak Agarwal
DA>Sun-Sentinel
DA>Tribune group of Newspapers
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