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Prestige 652 Series User’s Guide
Menu 2 WAN Backup Setup 25-13
25.9 Editing Login Script
For some remote gateways, text login is required before PPP negotiation is started. The Prestige provides a
script facility for this purpose. The script has six programmable sets; each set is composed of an ‘Expect’
string and a ‘Send’ string. After matching a message from the server to the ‘Expect’ field, the Prestige
returns the set’s ‘Send’ string to the server.
For instance, a typical login sequence starts with the server printing a banner, a login prompt for you to
enter the user name and a password prompt to enter the password:
Welcome to Acme, Inc.
Login: myLogin
Password:
To handle the first prompt, you specify “
ogin:
” as the ‘Expect’ string and “
myLogin
” as the ‘Send’
string in set 1. The reason for leaving out the leading “
L
” is to avoid having to know exactly whether it is
upper or lower case. Similarly, you specify “
word:
” as the ‘Expect’ string and your password as the
‘Send’ string for the second prompt in set 2.
You can use two variables,
$USERNAME
and
$PASSWORD
(all UPPER case), to represent the actual user
name and password in the script, so they will not show in the clear. They are replaced with the outgoing
login name and password in the remote node when the Prestige sees them in a ‘Send’ string. Please note
that both variables must been entered exactly as shown. No other characters may appear before or after,
either, i.e., they must be used alone in response to login and password prompts.
Please note that the ordering of the sets is significant, i.e., starting from set 1, the Prestige will wait until the
‘Expect’ string is matched before it proceeds to set 2, and so on for the rest of the script. When both the
‘Expect’ and the ‘Send’ fields of the current set are empty, the Prestige will terminate the script processing
and start PPP negotiation. This implies two things: first, the sets must be contiguous; the sets after an empty
one are ignored. Second, the last set should match the final message sent by the server. For instance, if the
server prints:
login successful.
Starting PPP...
After you enter the password, then you should create a third set to match the final “ PPP... ” but without a
“Send” string. Otherwise, the Prestige will start PPP prematurely right after sending your password to the
server.
If there are errors in the script and it gets stuck at a set for longer than the “Dial Timeout” in menu 2
(default 60 seconds), the Prestige will timeout and drop the line. To debug a script, go to Menu 24.4 to
initiate a manual call and watch the trace display to see if the sequence of messages and prompts from the
server differs from what you expect.