Hi there. I'm attempting to use Win32::RASE to automate the creation of a dial-up connection.

I've read the docs for the module, and it seems it hasn't been updated for a while - since 2000, I believe. It only mentions successfully running on Windows NT, nothing higher.

However, it seems to be a wrapper for Win32::API calls to the rasapi32.dll functions, which in theory are supposed to work on every win32 version.

I'm trying to use it on Windows 2000; I'm getting some odd behaviour. If I use the standard syntax as described in the documentation, sometimes it creates the connectoid as indicated, but othertimes it doesn't even do that. Even if it successfully creates a connectoid, it always dies immediately after with an "application error" - saying something about an instruction at some hex address tried to reference an instruction at some other hex address, and the memory could not be "written".

I stuck some print statements into RASE.pm just to clarify, and sure enough, if I try to call the sub RaseCreateEntry() with appropriate arguments, the sub appears to be dying right after the following snippet: 

$RasSetEntryProperties ||= new("rasapi32", "RasSetEntryProperties", [P
+,P,P,N,P,N], N);

  my $ret = $RasSetEntryProperties->Call($PHONEBOOK||0,
     $props->{name}, $RASENTRY, length($RASENTRY),0,0);

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Anyone have any thoughts on what I can try to correct this? I suppose I can experiment with using the Win32::API directly with the RAS* functions - I haven't done that before, but no time like the present to learn, I suppose :)

In reply to Win32::RASE problems by mabman

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