Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:46:41 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp(8) v. 3.1 : PPPoE lqr problem. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20021001074328.063740a0@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <20021001075604.GC15460@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <3D98E439.1010400@pydo.org> <3D98E439.1010400@pydo.org>
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At 09:56 AM 10/1/2002 +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote: >Le 2002-10-01, Artur Pydo =E9crivait : > > > Since the end of August i had problems running my ADSL connection. > > > I discovered that ppp changed its behaviour regarding lqr after > > the upgrade from version 2.3.3 to 3.1. > >This is probably a coincidence. I saw that when France Telecom changed >some ADSL equipment: the new BASs indeed do not reply to LCP Echo >Request frames. I have notified them of this problem several times since >then, to no avail. And, their VJ Header compression is broken... We got burned by this big=20 time when Bell Canada started switching away from Redback's SMSes... ------------ Knowledge Asset ID#: 1773.00000 Subject: The ERX does not support IP header compression as described in RFC 2507 and RFC 2508. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Type: SW Release: SW Version: Problem Description: The ERX does not support and does not yet have plans to support IP header compression. For a full description of IP header compression refer to RFC 2507 and RFC 2508. It basically says that multiple packets to and from the same destinations can get their headers compressed to save about 8 bytes per packet. This feature has been requested in case 10349 -------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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