Re: about ppp compression


Subject: Re: about ppp compression
From: Paul Schinder (schinder@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 07:46:07 MST


At 3:23 PM +0100 12/9/99, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
> > Known problem, see the yellowdog-general archive.
> >
> > Good luck.
>
>I found a question by:
>
>Can't locate ppp-compress Aurel Wisse (Tue Nov 16 1999 - 19:31:49 MST)
>
>(this being you)
>
>But you never got any answer form that one, or if you did you got a private
>reply (there's no answer to your question in the YD's archive).
>
>There's another thread also by you about a missing ppp-compress at startup,
>but that's not my problem at all: I get no error message at startup about
>missing ppp-compress, but in the messages log when I do connect using PPP.
>
>That was for november 99. Then I searched inside october 99: nothing about
>ppp-compress. I've also looked inside previous archives (january 99
>to november
>99 and I found no solution by searching for "ppp" inside each of
>those archives
>pages).
>
>(no february and clicking on "march" archive link got me a "not found page"
>error).
>
>So I ask again: pppd doesn't find ppp-compress-21/26/24 modules: do
>they exist?
>If they do exist, where?

Put the following in your /etc/conf.modules:

alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate

>
>If you got ppp-compress running fine, can you help me Aurel?
>
>Thanks,
>
> > Aurel Wisse
> >
> > Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > when I check my messages log file, the PPP connections show that several
> > > ppp-compress files aren't found. It says:
> > >
> > > pppd: cannot locate module ppp-compress-21
> > > pppd: cannot locate module ppp-compress-26
> > > pppd: cannot locate module ppp-compress-24
> > >
> > > What do those messages mean? That I'm not using compressed
>headers, and not
> > > going as fast my 56.6 modem could?
> > >
> > > I use a PowerBook G3 with an internal 56.6 modem and Yellow-Dog CS 1.1

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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com



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