> I've been using an ISP just fine up till this morning 
 > but I am now suddenly getting a different logon 
 > sequence with them.  I have been connecting and they 
 > would ask for Name and password as expected.  Now, I 
 > get a line that says (some brand) Pipeline Server and 
 > then asks for a password.  It never asks for name so 
 > the script fails.  Looks like they have changed 
 > software on me.  

Why don't you just change your script to look for their terminal sever
banner rather than a login promopt?  

 > I have another server so I thought I'd try them.  They 
 > have a funny setup. They were a BBS which became an 
 > ISP.  So, when you call, their software says, 
 > "checking for ppp connection... 8 second delay - press 
 > CTRL X to abort to BBS".  The system apparently never 
 > detects that FNOS is a ppp connection and drops 
 > through to the BBS :-(!  Any way to solve this?  

I would presume that setting your PPP connective type to active rather than
passive will fix this one.  

TREV.


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