Bypassing Service Provider Banner In SWITCH.INF

 Last reviewed: March 25, 1997
Article ID: Q126382
The information in this article applies to:
  • 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 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 Q125975.

Additional query words: point-to-point prodnt
Keywords : kbnetwork ntras NTSrvWkst
Version : 3.5 4.0
Platform : WinNT

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Last reviewed: March 25, 1997
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