Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:20:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Linux PPP upgrade causes problems Message-ID: <199603172220.XAA22370@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <peter.827076545@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 17, 96 03:29:05 pm
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As Peter Wemm wrote: > We really need to find and fix this bug in iijppp.. It's causing problems on > several fronts, and even has difficulty talking to freebsd-current's pppd. > I think Joerg committed a hack to -current so that it would no longer trip > up iijppp, but I dont recall for sure. Yup, i have. > iijppp is going to have trouble talking to terminal servers, etc that have > hardware stac compression. Quite understandable. The scenario is certainly identical: both ends negotiate CCP, but cannot agree on a common compression protocol. However, IIJPPP gratuitously starts to use pred1 compression, simply since it knows that _CCP_ is still up, although pred1 has been denied. Wasn't the author of iijppp around on the lists, too? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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