wcPPP

When running your Wildcat! Interactive Net Server under Windows NT, you can now offer your clients a choice of services: a content-rich online service or a raw feed to the Internet just like commercial ISPs

New! wcPPP is a virtual terminal server that runs in conjunction with your Wildcat! Interactive Net Server to provide a raw Internet feed to your clients. Once connected to your Wildcat! Interactive Net Server using Windows 95 Dial-up networking or any Winsock compatible connection software, your clients can run virtually any TCP/IP application. Whether it’s Internet Relay Chat, real-time video conferencing or just browsing the Web, your clients can do it through the Wildcat! Interactive Net Server. Plus, it’s fast and easy! wcPPP provides auto-sensing connectivity and automatic IP address negotiation so your clients don’t need any messy login scripts or IP addressing. All they need is your Wildcat! Interactive Net Server phone number to get on the information superhighway.

Here’s what wcPPP can do for you:

Become an ISP
With wcPPP, you can offer a raw feed to the Internet just like commercial ISPs. Your clients can run any TCP/IP application through your Wildcat! Interactive Net Server. This means you can generate revenue as an ISP and as an online service.

Offer Content Choice
Your clients now can choose between your content-rich Wildcat! Interactive Net Server or raw Internet services. Make the new service a benefit of your current services or sell them separately for added income.

Reduce Learning Curve Support
Since wcPPP offers auto-sensing connectivity and IP address negotiation, all your callers need is their name, password and your phone number to get connected. No messy scripting or IP addresses are necessary.

Check out these features:

• Automatic PPP Detection (APD)
  wcPPP automatically recognizes, in the auto-sensing phase, that a caller is using a PPP stack. The channel immediately switches into PPP mode, without any command prompting whatsoever. This completely eliminates complex and customized login scripts, greatly simplifying the end user's setup. The logon process becomes as simple as connecting to any ISP's terminal server.
• Primary DNS Address Negotiation
  Much like the IP address negotiation, this automatic negotiation takes the user one step farther from the technical aspect of connecting to the Internet. It takes advantage of the dial-up networking in Windows 95 and Windows NT.
• PPP Authentication Protocol (PAP)
  Used in conjunction with APD, PAP makes end-user setup an amazingly simple task, significantly reducing technical support requirements. wcPPP connects the account through a ghosting mode that allows your customers to "telnet" back to your Wildcat! Interactive Net Server, either in client/server or terminal mode, while concurrently using other TCP/IP clients, such as a Web browser, or a graphical IRC client.
• IP Address Negotiation
  With this option, the caller doesn't need to know anything about IP addresses, and where to enter them. No matter what gets entered in the IP address field of the caller's stack, it will be overridden by this automatic negotiation. This option works without any kind of scripting on the end-user's PC, again reducing your technical support.
• Scaleable
  You can run the system on multiple machines as your customer needs grow.
• New Pass-through SLIP/CSLIP/PPP Server features
  Since pass-through users are "ghosted" on the system, new features were introduced to improve the security and efficiency of the BBS. The system operator can now restrict who is able to telnet back into the system, and restrict such telnets to coming only from the address assigned by the pass-through server, preventing multiple people from using the same account concurrently. Credit consumption rates for the second telnet can also be customized for your business' needs.