Hi guys,
Sorry I am not providing an answer to scott's question but rather trying
to get more info about ppp/linux hardware for it. I have an opportion of
setting up a RAS server for an ISP with 64 dialup client.
I taught off setting up a linux server with cyclades 'cos it worked quite
well for me for a commercial mail server here. I don't know if digi board
is better or the commsever Scott mentioned 'cos I have never tried them
before. Can anybody advise me on this.
Thanks
Jones
On Sat, 20 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Forgive me if this discussion has happened before, but I could not find it...
>
> We have been looking for a cost concious dialup solution. The price of a Digi
> RAS card plugged into a linux box is of course extremely attractive. Earlier a
> commserver was purchased from Cabletron (a CSX7000), so that is what the linux
> solution is being compared to. So far I have found only one drawback to the
> linux box. The CSX7000's compression "subsystem" (as they call it) enables the
> transfer of text files at double the speed of the linux box. When I turn this
> option off, the linux box once again outperforms the CSX7000 in the transfer of
> text files, as it always has with compressed files.
>
> Nearly all of our users are dialing in with Win95 DUN. Myself and a few others
> that run linux at home connect with the linux pppd, but the number is
> negligible.
>
> Is this problem happening because the Win95 DUN client cannot do the compression
> supported by the linux pppd (Deflate, or BSD)?
>
> Or is it that the compression scheme that is supported with Win 95 DUN, is not
> available to linux pppd because of some licensing issues, or some technical
> incompatibility?
>
> Does anyone know of anything I can do to get compression to work between linux
> <---> Win95 peers?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help...
> --
> Scott Knight, Network Analyst - SSM Health Care, Information Center
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