Knowledge Base

Bypassing Service Provider Banner In SWITCH.INF

Article ID: 126382

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q126382

SUMMARY

The following statement can be used in your Remote Access Service (RAS) SLIP/PPP logon script (SWITCH.INF file) to bypass the banner text of your service provider:

LOOP=<ignore>

MORE INFORMATION

Many service providers send a long welcome and instruction text banner each time you logon. You can use the LOOP=<ignore><cr> statement in your automated logon script, to bypass an unknown number of text banner lines.

For example:

COMMAND=
OK=<match>"Enter User Name:"
ERROR_NO_CARRIER=<match>"NO CARRIER"
LOOP=<ignore>

This set of commands causes the blank COMMAND= to be issued until Enter User Name: is matched. Therefore, any lines of text sent by the service provider before Enter User Name: are ignored by your automated logon script.

For more information on using the SWITCH.INF to automate a logon, refer to Knowledge Base article 125975.

Additional query words: point-to-point prodnt

Keywords: kbnetwork KB126382