From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cameron Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:27:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Re: Re: how to use compress modul in ppp process Message-Id: <20080428012745.GD4399@hp.com> List-Id: References: <200804250001085508333@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200804250001085508333@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org 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. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/