[H-GEN] modprobe ppp compress/deflate

Rob Kearey r.kearey at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Sun Mar 7 22:46:40 EST 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Rob Kearey <r.kearey at mailbox.uq.edu.au>)

Martin Pool wrote:

> Andrew Over wrote:
> 
> > alias ppp-compress-24 off
> > alias ppp-compress-21 off
> >
> > >From memory that fixes things.  Of course my memory has misfunctioned in
> > the past.  And I'm not in a position to test this at the moment. :-)
> 
> It probably would.  But what are they supposed to do?

>  /\\\  Mincom | Martin Pool          | martin.pool at mincom.com

Clearly, they're meant to compress PPP data - frinstance, 21 becomes 3,
and 24 becomes 6. Fiendishly clever.

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