From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 27 8:23:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hcsext.hcs.de (hcsext.hcs.de [194.123.40.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBF6514D20 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (1728 bytes) by hcsext.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:21:51 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-11) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m10QvqD-0000dmC; Sat, 27 Mar 99 17:21 MET Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: LZS (STAC) compression in i4b? In-Reply-To: <199903261224.MAA03442@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Mar 26, 99 12:24:19 pm" To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:21:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 854 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I doubt, there will ever be STAC compression available in any free PPP > > implementation. > > Agreed. I've talked to both Microsoft and Stac Electronics about > this. The only mention in user-ppp is where it identifies frames and > parses LCP requests. Strange enough - i ftp'ed me the linux ISDN stuff, and there seem to be a STAC compression implementation based on the RFC in it. I'm really, _really_ interested in STAC's reaction to that, even more because the author seems to be fully aware of the patent situation. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message