>> 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.

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

Thanks for the response, Trev.  They are now back to the expected
"Name and Password" prompts =BUT= I still can't use them :-(.  I
appear to complete the logon and NOS says it is looking for the server
address and then just sits there until it times out.  I have tried using
both the domain name and the actual address but it still just sits...

 >> 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?

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

I checked FNOS's ppp settings and it is set for active rather than passive
but it's still not realising that I am a ppp call apparently.   Any other
suggestions?

   ==Ed==

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