Dennis Burke wrote:
>
> For the second time this week, when establishing a ppp connection I was
> assigned the same local and remote IP address (134.53.29.45).  Of course,
> this doesn't work.  Is this a problem with one particular modem?
>
> During busy periods there is also another? modem that gets "stuck" during
> handshake -- I am assuming this a bad modem.  This has happened quite often.
> Is there a way to check this out?
 
I asked Dennis Schwind in Networking about this a couple weeks ago.  He
indicated that it's not a single bad modem, but a bad T1 connection, I
think.  He said that he was actively working on the problem.
 
Bugs the heck out of me, too.
 
Clayton