Cannot Reconnect With Same IP Address to SLIP Server

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY

The Remote Access Service (RAS) utility, Remote Access, in Windows NT version 3.5 supports connections to servers that use Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP). If a RAS client makes and breaks a connection to a SLIP server, it can no longer use the same IP address to reconnect to the SLIP server.

MORE INFORMATION

Unlike PPP, you are unable to configure Windows NT 3.5 RAS to use a specific IP address from the SLIP server being dialed. The SLIP server will assign the Windows NT 3.5 RAS client an IP address. Therefore, the RAS client does not have the capacity to reuse the previous IP address when it attempts to reconnect to the SLIP server after the initial connection is broken.

Other design constraints involving RAS connections to SLIP servers include the fact that a terminal interface window will always appear first during the logon process to the SLIP server. There is no way to disable this feature. Additionally, the RAS client will not disconnect from the SLIP server until the SLIP server drops the Data Carrier Detect (DCD) signal. If the modem through which RAS is making the SLIP connection does not drop the DCD signal, the RAS client will not hang up.