RE: PPP connection sometimes fails.

[rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Carl,

I would tend agree with you, but it's happening about 80% of the time and
that seems like a pretty high failure rate.  We've got 1 to 3 of these
downloads scheduled daily.

Sometimes when I try it manually i could try it 5 or 6 times without
success, tack on to that the fact that each try takes anywhere from 1 to 3
minutes before I get the log entries i'd be looking for to see if I'm
connected.

I'm already monitoring QTCPs message queue for the connection is
established msg - if I get the connect message, i'm good, but how long
should I wait?  The PPP log is a spool file (as far as I know, no real
message log), and i really don't want to parse and read it.

you would think that there's some kind of logging going on at thier end,
and working together we could figure out what's happening.

Oh, well, I guess I'll wait for 3 or 4 minutes then try again.  it just
seems like it shouldn't have to be such a hassle.

thanks for the advice,

Rick

-----original message---------
Hi Rick:
My general feeling is that any type of communications (but probably more so
for dial up) is going to fail for some reason some of the time.  The key is
to programmatically trap the error and redial again until you get a good
connection.
Perhaps, just as a quick though, after you start your PPP connection you
could ping an address on the banks network and if you don't get a response,
end the PPP session and try again.
cjg

Carl J. Galgano