Re: ppp-compress modprobe problems

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:28:19 +0100 (GMT)


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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Harald Koenig wrote:

>
> and what am I missing for
>
> modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-1
>
> using pppd-2.3.5 and Linux-2.1.119 ?
>

ppp-compress-1 is predictor-1, and has definate copyright/patent problems,
btw ppp-compress-2 (which you didn't ask about) is predictor-2, and
suffers from the same problems.

IIRC these are also known as STAC and STAC-2, but don't quote me on that
;)

> where can I find docs or more information on those compression/module numbers ?
>

linux/include/linux/ppp-comp.h always works for me ;).

Bryn
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