[plug] Compression under PPP on a Red Hat 5.2 box

[Michael Hunt]

Thanks. I wasn't at my Linux box at the time. I'll give it a shot

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of John Summerfield
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 1999 8:08
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Compression under PPP on a Red Hat 5.2 box 
> 
> 
> > A couple of questions about PPP compression
> > 
> > 1. Does the pppd on a Red Hat 5.2 box support STAC compression (this is
> > mainly for dial up to a server by 56k modem for downloading of files) ?
> > 2. If STAC compression is used does anything have be changed on 
> the Red Hat
> > box ?
> > 3. Does the pppd 2.3.5 (I think that's the one that comes with 
> Red Hat 5.2)
> > support MS STAC ?
> > 4. What about Van Jacobson compression ?
> 
> man pppd
> 
> > 
> > At the moment I have a dial in server at work that I can dial 
> into with Win
> > machines and my Linux box, however I am just tweaking the last 
> little bit
> > out of it and was wondering what people knew about the use of such
> > compression with pppd
> 
> I manned pppd the other day and turned on the compression choices I saw. 
> Seems the box at the other end (OS/2) doesn't know them.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
> http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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>