From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 25 22:46:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA10759 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA10750 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA13344; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:46:35 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199708260546.HAA13344@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Digi (Arnet) SYNC/570i In-Reply-To: from Jeff Lynch at "Aug 25, 97 04:45:03 pm" To: jeff@mercury.jorsm.com (Jeff Lynch) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:46:35 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Does anyone know if VJ header compression (and possibly Cisco-compatible > PPP data compression) are supported with ar(4) and sppp on a SYNC/570i? My > customer is using one of these boards in a Novell server. No it's not in there. There shouldn't be a problem though because during the ipcp negotiation they should just agree not to use it. RFC1662 says in Appendix A: ========== The following Configurations Options are recommended: High Speed links Magic Number Link Quality Monitoring No Address and Control Field Compression No Protocol Field Compression ========== Now it is problably debatable when a link is a high speed link..... John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za