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If your ISP uses a scripting process for logging onto the network and starting a PPP connection, you can do this with the script editor. The script editor lets you write a script that automatically logs in and starts your PPP session as if you had typed the commands. Each line in the script waits for a prompt from the host computer or sends a response to the host computer.
Note: Online services such as America Online*, CompuServe*, and Microsoft Network* do not support PPP and cannot be used with the Internet Station.
To create a login script
- From the Internet Station Home page, select Manage Connection
- Select the ISP Profiles option.
- From the list of Current Profiles, select the ISP profile that you want to create a script for.
- Click on the Login Script button.
- To add commands to the script, select a command and click Add to End. (For Text commands, type the text in the Text box.)
Example 1
Your ISP instructs you to log in and issue a PPP command. The system prompts for a login and password. After the host sends a welcome message, you enter the "ppp" command. If you logged in manually with a username of "wes", it would look like this:
login: wes
Password:
Welcome to Newport!
ppp
To create a script for this example
- Click Wait for Text, type "login:" in the text box, and click Add to End.
- Click Send Username and click Add to End. This adds a line to send the username you specify on the ISP Profile form.
- Click Wait for Text, type "Password:" in the text box, and click Add to End.
- Click Send Password and click Add to End. This sends the password you specify on the ISP Profile form.
- Click Wait for Text, type "port!" in the text box, and click Add to End (you only need to include the last part of the text, in this case "port!" in "Welcome to Newport!").
- Click Send Text, type ppp in the text box, and click Add to End.
Your script should look like this:
1 Wait for: login:
2 Send Username
3 Wait for: Password:
4 Send Password
5 Wait for: port!
6 Send: ppp
Example 2
The ISP requires that you enter your username with ".ppp" appended. If your username is "steve", the script would look like:
1 Wait for: name:
2 Send steve.ppp
3 Wait for: word:
4 Send Password
You cannot use the "Send Username" option in this example because the Send Username command always sends the username followed by a return.
For more information on the Internet Station Setup or on how to make configuration changes, see the following documents:
How to Change the Standard Settings
Setting up an ISDN adapter
Customizing TCP/IP settings
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