(ASCEND) A few, if I may...

[John-David Childs <jdc@denver.net>]

I tried to get FAQ'd on these questions since I haven't personally used 
or dealth with a MAX/TNT in many years, but it appears that Mr. Nealis has
sufffered a fatal crash on his website:

1) Reading the "current" TAOS Release Note, it appears that stacking is still
unsupported on the TNT.  Any word (even from the underground) as to when
(or if) this might be fixed?  Our (relatively uncooperative) outsourced
dialup vendor uses TNT's and we have about 8000 customers who will soon
be dialing into them...so stacking is definately an issue.

2) The same vendor mentioned in #1 made a change to their
TNT code in the past two weeks which has caused all of our Portmaster
customers and many of our Macintosh customers to fail IPCP negotiation,
or in the alternative fail to pass packets to an appropriate default
gateway.  Previously, our customers hard coded a default gateway which
was on our network attached to our vendor's backbone, and thus potentially
three or four hops away from the TNT but nevertheless known to the vendor's
network via dynamic routing protocols.  Now I have to guess at the default
gateway by choosing an IP address of one of their TNT's (it seems that any 
IP in the /24 used by their TNT's will do...until they renumber their
TNT's or point their dialup numbers at a different bank).  I've even
tried using RIP listen on *our* customer's Portmaster to learn a
default route, but apparently the TNT's aren't sending one (verified
via debugging commands).  And unlike most recent routers/IP stacks,
Portmaster's apparently can't be set to use a specific *interface* for
a default route...there must be an IP address.  So...anyone have a clue
what broke?  Our vendor has disavowed any knowledge of changes, but so far 
we haven't been able to climb high enough up the clue ladder to get a
decent answer.
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