Re: no ppp compression even though pppstats says VJCOMP; new in potato - SOLVED
> From: John Pearson <huiac@camtech.net.au>
> ...
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:55:44PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote
> > BCC: dsb@smart.net
> > References: <09f601c00d9d$c1f10a80$0100a8c0@windows98>
> > --text follows this line--
> >
> > I don't seem to be getting any compression in ppp.
> >
> > Is there something extra I need to do in potato's ppp to fully
> > enable compression?
> >
> >
> > pppstats lists most packets in the VJCOMP column, seemingly
> > indicating that it thinks packets are getting compressed.
> >
> > However, the maximum bytes per second I get when downloading
> > a very compressible large web page is no larger than the bytes
> > per second for uncompressible data.
> >
> > (I get about 3850 bytes per second raw speed (e.g., downloading
> > a .gz file).
> >
> > The compressible web page used to download at around 11000 bytes
> > per second on my previous slink system, but now it downloads at
> > only 3850 bytes per second.)
> >
>
> ...
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> This is much more likely to be an issue with your serial port
> or modem setup, or perhaps your MRU (man pppd for details).
It turned that the "speed 115200" in /etc/diald/diald.conf is
useless (no, I don't know exactly why); I had to set "speed 115200"
in /usr/diald/diald.options.
Daniel
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