Compression over null-modem connection (Was Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

[hilliard@metrolink.net (Robert D. Hilliard)]

Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> writes:
> One small point.  You can get compression from a modem but it is very
> difficult to get compression over a piece of wire.   :-)

     I believe compression from a modem is actually software compression
implemented by the modem's ROM, while BSD compression is software
compression implemented by the kernel.  It seems to me that BSD
compression should work over any ppp line, regardless of whether it
went through a modem or not.

     Correct me if I'm wrong.

Bob


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