From: Nicholas Miell <bc543@scn.org>
To: Christian Gennerat <christian.gennerat@vz.cit.alcatel.fr>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.23 is available
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:44:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A407F84.23E8733@scn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3249.977272993@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3A407C5F.C8BC2802@vz.cit.alcatel.fr>
Christian Gennerat wrote:
>
> About Standard aliases:
> > modprobe -c
> ...
> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> ...
>
> Why bsd_comp is the standard alias?
> /src/linux/Configure.help says that
>
> The PPP Deflate compression method ("PPP Deflate compression",
> above) is preferable to BSD-Compress, because it compresses better
> and is patent-free.
>
ppp-compress-21 refers to PPP compression method 21, which happens to
be BSD Compress. Deflate is 26 (and also 24, because it was assigned
that
value in the draft RFC).
Aliasing ppp-compress-21 to anything other than bsd_comp would break
PPP.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-20 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-16 23:45 Announce: modutils 2.3.23 is available Keith Owens
2000-12-20 0:43 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-20 9:31 ` Christian Gennerat
2000-12-20 9:44 ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2000-12-20 21:13 ` Keith Owens
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