From owner-freebsd-isdn Tue Mar 28 3:34:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FFE937BA59 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 03:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (hak.nat.Awfulhak.org [172.31.0.12]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA62586; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:34:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15518; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:33:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200003281133.MAA15518@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: hm@hcs.de Cc: rock@dead-end.net (D. Rock), andreas@klemm.gtn.com, isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: problems with right sppp settings in rc.conf ??? In-Reply-To: Message from hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) of "Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:05:48 +0200." <20000328080549.6DB4C4832@hcswork.hcs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:33:22 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >From the keyboard of D. Rock: > > > I'm curious why user level ppp isn't propagated more in this mailing list. > > I was running a link with i4b ipr's at both ends for several years and was > curious about datacompression on this link. > > One day, after evaluating mppd and finding out that it currently is > not able to do datacompression (out-of-the-box) i converted this link to > use ppp (with some help understanding some "dark-corner-issues", thanks > a lot, Brian!) with i4b on both sides. Both sides run FreeBSD 3.4-something > and since then i'm very satisfied with it. > > For pure ASCII data, i get (ftp) transfer rates of ~20Kb/sec (and i have > also seen 35Kb/sec ... 40Kb/sec) using deflate compression instead of the > usual 7.5Kb/sec. > > Since this is a one-side-callback, both-side-dial-on-demand link, some > tricky and non-obvious configuration was setup. This is mainly due to the > fact that ppp is mainly based on the idea that dialling and calling out > is generally initiated by a user and not fully automatically and without > any user intervention. > > I still want to write a short documentation about this setup, but i didn't > found the time to do it so far. And I mean to make this side of things easier to do, but I haven't gotten the time yet :-( As a side note, I am now using a rather obscure PPPoUDPoPPPoISDN arrangement from home so that I can do link compression on the top PPP. I'm also trying to conceive of ways to make this sort of thing easier to do. I should be able to do a multi-link version of this too, but the last time I tried to explain how to do this (see usr/share/examples/ppp/*span-isp*), I don't think people really embraced it fully :-I FWIW, for those of us in the ``connect-to-isp'' market, I'm currently working on getting MPPC/MPPE working in ppp.... > hellmuth > -- > Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 > HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 > Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de > D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message