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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP connection is s......l......o.......w......!
Date: 13 Jul 1996 11:09:36 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote:

> Predictor1 compression is known to occasionally cause rather strange
> things to happen with user PPP...

Or, to express it less gently: the entire CCP implementation in iijppp
is horribly broken. :-(

-- 
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. ;-)