>> "Hey, with the ppp_compress modules, what do they actually do? Do I get
>> software compression out of them or what? If so, how do I know the
>> compression average?
>
>This is Van Jacobsen Compression, same as CSLIP.
That is incorrect. The ppp_compress modules compress the data using either
bsd compression (I think it is the same as Z-compress) or deflation (the
same as gzip, I think).
VJ compression uses no extra modules. ppp-compress needs the following
aliases in /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules):
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 slhc
Under all the setups I've done, I've needed to SIGUSR2 the pppd once ip
comes up to get it to actually use compression. Don't ask me why... maybe
its a bug with ppp-2.3.5.
..Brian
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