Re: ppp compression schemes

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:03:46 +0000 (GMT)


Hi there.

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Matthias Andree wrote:

> I have been using ppp for a very long time now and there are three
> issues:

The first two are outside of my experience, so I can't comment on
them. However...

> c) compression. Besides SLiRP, I haven't seen any ISDN dialup
> router negotiating compression via CCP. This may be due to
> Ascend not supporting "free" compression schemes or Linux not
> supporting Stac, while Ascend <-> Windows 95 OSR 2 negotiates
> compression.

> Is there any way to either make Ascend include ppp-deflate or
> bsd-compress support or to make Linux include stac compression?

I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that stac compression is a
proprietary protocol (hence the Stac v M$ case a while back), and this
is the reason why it's not in Linux...

Best wishes from Riley.

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