Ok , let me explore on the server side ....! Could you please guide me thru ppp-extension support ....! Regs, Arun On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:49 PM, James Carlson <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > arun b wrote: >> Ok, >> as you said i can verify all compression types on PPPoE test... >> So i have pppoe-server available at my pc, if you have come across >> related server configuration for this .... pls do know me. >> and running PPPoA - test running is not just easy to me as >> unavailability of the device. > > I don't know what you're asking about, but pppd generally enables all > available compression modes by default (regardless of the underlying > communication mechanism), and will disable a compression mode either if > the peer disagrees with the request or if you specify one of the > documented options to turn off that mode (or to turn off compression > completely). > > In other words, if your "server" is actually pppd, then there's nothing > that you need to do to enable compression. If it's something other than > pppd, then this might not be the right mailing list. You should consult > your server's documentation to find out what features it offers. > > As for selectively turning off available compression types in pppd, I > still urge you to read the pppd man page. It's pretty important. For > data compression options, you'll find the following: > > noccp, bsdcomp, nobsdcomp, deflate, nodeflate, predictor1, > nopredictor1 > > For header compression (again, _not_ data compression), you'll find: > > noaccomp, novj, novjccomp, vj-max-slots > > There are also two that are sort of special -- mpshortseq and > nompshortseq -- that have to do with header compression when using MP. > You haven't mentioned MP yet, so I'll assume you're not using it. > > The really short answer is this: PPP negotiates for everything. If both > sides support something, then, great, it'll be enabled. If either or > both sides don't support something, then it won't be enabled. That's > pretty much the whole story. > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
