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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!kiae!relcom!push.stack.serpukhov.su!usenet From: "Gene Selkov, Jr." <selkovjr@pool.stack.serpukhov.su> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: M$ trying to rule the world (was Re: FreeBSD pppd <--> Win95 Dial-up) Date: 6 Nov 1995 12:37:37 GMT Organization: Stack Ltd., Pushchino, Russia Lines: 46 Message-ID: <47kvih$csl@push.stack.serpukhov.su> References: <478tqq$k7t@agate.berkeley.edu> <47at8g$bps@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pool.stack.serpukhov.su Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit) nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) wrote: >In article <478tqq$k7t@agate.berkeley.edu>, >Charles Anderson <cander@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >> >>Does anyone know what options one needs to configure in either pppd or >>Win95 dial-up networking to get the two to talk? > >Welcome to 'MicroSloth', we rule the world. M$ asked to add some >extenstions to the PPP protocol that didn't belong, so the Internet Task >Force (I think that's who they are, someone correct me if I'm wrong) >turned them down. Now, being the type of company they are, they of >course agree with the ruling and decided to follow the rules. (NOT!) > >M$ added these extensions to all of their products, expecting the rest >of the world to bow to their wishes via the sheer #'s of folks who would >complain about the link not working. > >The bottom line is that it's a bug in M$ PPP implementation that should >be taken up with M$. They are *intentionally* breaking the rules just >to see if they can do it, and if we allow them to do it here it only >gives them the nerve to do it again. > >However, this doesn't help you with your Win95 box. For that I have no >solution except to give M$ tech-support a ring and make sure they don't >blame the problem on FreeBSD. We are *following* spec., and they >aren't. For more details on the problem checkout the BSDi mailing lists >archives, where it is discussed in greater detail. > > >Nate >-- >nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations >nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of >work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or >home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well. The solution is to disable MS proprietary data compression protocol over PPP. I tried it with Win95 June test release and it worked fine, except its average performance was more than two times weaker than between Win95 and NT Server. I am almost sure MS did not change a bit in the basic PPP implementation and I find data compression a great feature. You are not supposed to transfer zipped files all the time, are you? Gene