[pptp-server] Windows XP and PPTP

[Charlie Brady]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 lists at earthling.2y.net wrote:

> MPPC - Microsft Point to Point Compression Protocol.
> 
> It can be implmented in pppd, but the use of it can actually make
> datagrams larger, so thats why the pppd people have never tried writing a
> module for it.

The MPPE encryption already makes datagrams larger. And yes, that can be a 
problem.

Check again, you'll see that the compression protocol is patented. That's
at least an additional reason that it hasn't been implemented in
PoPToP/pppd, if not the main reason.

[And sure they call it a Microsoft protocol, even though they didn't 
invent it.]

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