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Re: (ASCEND) Have to hit a key for prompt in terminal wind

     Thanks, PPP Delay was the parameter I was looking for.
     
     The reason we are using the terminal window is for SecurID 
     authentication.  My understanding is that if you want to authenticate 
     ISDN terminal adapter users with SecurID, you need to use V.120 and 
     the terminal window.  If there is another way to do this, especially 
     one that would allow us to do dual channel calls, I would love to hear 
     about it.
     
     Regards,
     Dean Heltemes


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Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Have to hit a key for prompt in terminal wind
Author:  vandry (vandry@Mlink.NET) at hdqt-unix-mime
Date:    10/24/97 2:44 PM


>      All of our modem and terminal adapter users (Windows 95 and NT) 
>      authenticate to our MAX 4004 (5.0Ap1) through a terminal window.  Is 
>      there anyone to configure the clients, RADIUS, or MAX so that users do 
>      not have to hit a key for the login prompt to appear?  Not a big 
>      problem, but still annoying.
     
It's a tradeoff. What you are experiencing is the PPP delay - the amount of 
time the terminal server will wait for the remote end to start a PPP 
connection before it will give up and go text based.
     
If you set it to zero, all logins will be terminal logins - there will be 
no direct PPP logins.
     
If you set it very low (<5 or <10), your users have a chance of missing the 
window of opportunity to start a PPP connection. Keep in mind that the 
typical PPP implementation will wait 3 seconds between each attempt to
open the connection (LCP Configure-Request), but your terminal login users 
will not have to wait very long for the prompt.
     
If you set it very high, it is almost guaranteed that your PPP users will 
connect, but the terminal users will have to wait a very long time before 
getting the prompt (or they can hit a key to cancel the PPP mode).
     
Anyway, it's PPP delay in The Termserv options.
     
By the way, you mention that your terminal adapter users use terminal 
logins. I assume yo mean ISDN terminal adapters, in which case this is 
a Bad Thing. That means they probably use V.120 (the only way to do 
anything terminal-like over ISDN) instead of PPP and it costs 
performance.
     
-Phil

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