Error 732 when dialling into Router with IPX enabled

[Peter Zinckgraf]

Hi there,

I searched the net over and over but all I found is a heap
of people having the same or a similar problem but no clue:

When I enable IPX on a connection I receive a PPP CP error
732 after user authentification and eventually IPX is dropped.

My config:

- notebook with W2k SP2
- Novell Client 4.81
- DUN connection to Bintec Router

Same connection with IP only works fine.

Same notebook with 98SE worked fine.

Router's PPP compression setting does not seem to matter.

Unfortunately I did not try the connections before
installing SP2, so I can't tell if it has ever worked with
this very installation.

Is there any solution around?

Thx,

Peter Zinckgraf

[Peter Zinckgraf]

Hi there,

Peter Zinckgraf wrote:

> When I enable IPX on a connection I receive a PPP CP error 732 after
> user authentification and eventually IPX is dropped.
>
> My config:
>
> - notebook with W2k SP2
> - Novell Client 4.81
> - DUN connection to Bintec Router
>
>
> Same connection with IP only works fine.
>
> Same notebook with 98SE worked fine.
>
> Router's PPP compression setting does not seem to matter.

I dug a little further in the meantime and found out that
PPP error 732 is not caused by the NW client, which makes it
definitely on-topic here.

As far as I found out Win2k is not able to save an internal
IPX net number, which is the only property of IPX in a DUN
connection.

If Win2k dials into a (in my case Bintec) router the
router's control protocol hands out a number, but Win2k is
not even able to memorize that number long enough to finish
the PPP handshake. Hence error 732.

IMHO it would help if a manually changed internal IPX net
number could be saved. What sense does it make that a
property is changeable, but not saveable?

Is there a fix around/under way for this?

Thanks, and have agood one,

Peter