Re: Re: Re: how to use compress modul in ppp process

[James Cameron <james.cameron@hp.com>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:10:50PM +0800, C.J wrote:
> Charlie wrote:
> >Do you have a good reason for apparently ignoring my statement that MPPC 
> >is usually not supported by the ppp modules in the kernel? Are you quite 
> >sure that your kernel (or kernel modules) has been specifically patched to 
> >support MPPC? If not, you cannot use MPPC, not matter how you configure 
> >your client.
> Really? But in my machine(which kernel is 2.6, Debian system) has
> ppp_mppe module but no any patch.

Debian kernels do not have MPPC support, because of (a) kernel.org
kernel does not have MPPC support, and (b) the patent issue.

The ppp_mppe module provides MPPE support, not MPPC support.

> Also has other compress module such as bsd_comp, deflate.

This is not relevant.

> Does this mean that kernel support it and I can use it? 

No.

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