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#! rnews 1820 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!portal.gmu.edu!bneel From: bneel@site.gmu.edu (Brian T Neel (CS)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp instead of pppd, updated FAQ? Date: 2 Nov 1995 23:52:17 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <47bljh$ja1@portal.gmu.edu> References: <46r9p1$1id@portal.gmu.edu> <mbon3aksqcr.fsf@epsilon.hut.fi> <46vigu$urf@portal.gmu.edu> <478a1j$dqp@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: site.gmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : >: Try adding the following lines to your ppp.conf: : > : >: disable pred1 : >: deny pred1 : > : > thanks much, after disabling that compression (which I somehow didn't : >notice the manual said was DEFAULT) everything works perfect. : > : > If my systems are average when it comes to ppp, this should definately not : >be a default setting. : Almost *every* PPP implementation used today by ISP's support : Predictor-1 compression, although it appear Linux doesn't. Get your ISP : to update the PPP implementation they use to something more modern, : since using compression significantly increases throughput. Also, the : way PPP is setup, if a implementation doesn't support compression, it : should be telling your client that it's unsupported, and not fake it which : causes the link to fail. : The bottom line is that your ISP's PPP implementation isn't just old, : it's also buggy. Well, when you get your connect through a university...should you really expect more? From my experience dealing with schools, I'm lucky I even connect above 300 baud.