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Re: PPP and VJ compression problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew McNamara)
Wed Mar 29 05:10:15 1995
To: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
cc: scldad@sdc.com.au (Stephen Davies), linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, chris@connect.com.au
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:58:27 PST."
<199503290258.SAA00153@longyear.slip.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:25:21 +1000
From: Andrew McNamara <andrewm@connect.com.au>
>There are some terminal servers which will do nasty things such as
>'lie'. They will say that they will accept VJ header compression with
>16 slots as indicated by the trace above. Unfortunately, they really
>don't expect clients to use that many slots.
>
>You should try the option "vj-max-slots 1" and see if this will work
>rather than disabling the VJ header compression all together. If this
>does work, try it with two, then three. You may have to work up to 16,
>which is the default value.
>
>Possible problems have been noted for the Annex (Xylogics) terminal
>server with their 5.2 revision code.
If helps at all, the terminal server that Steven is calling into is a
Cisco 500-CS running version 9.21(6) software.
--
Andrew McNamara
Systems Engineer
Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd.
