Well for the past few months I've been using the bsd_comp module over PPP
over a wireless serial connection between two locations I admin. The serial
line runs at ~57k (soon to be upgraded to ~115k). At each end is a Pentium
120Mhz system w/ 8mb RAM. One end is running kernel 2.0.37, the other end
runs 2.2.13.
I have had them both using as much as 32mb RAM at the same time, too, but I
cannot tell that that made any difference with my problem.
THe problem is... the BSD compression does not seem to work reliably. When
I establish the connection, I get a message in /var/log/syslog indicating
that BSD-Compress is enabled.
However, very shortly I'll also get a message that the peer did not clean
it's compression dictionary and BSD-Compression has been lost. It seems
that if I lower the compression level (to say 9 rather than 10 or higher)
this doesn't happen as quickly, but it does still seem to happen eventually.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Are these systems insufficient for
bsd_compression over a serial line of this speed? I'd expect that some
mid-range 486's would be sufficent for compression at this speed, but I may
be mistaken.
I can paste some PPP logs of the BSD messages/errors if that would be
helpful.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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