[pptp-server] Another thing: compression

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Wed May 15 05:41:51 CDT 2002


On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:38:13PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 13:00, Alex King wrote:
> > If I tick "Enable software compression" in the client setup, the mppe
> > negotiation and the connection will fail. (Unless both client and server
> > do not require mppe.)
> 
> This rings a bell.  Doesn't that require MPPC, and isn't MPPC
> unavailable to us?

Right, it's not available, but I would expect 'enable' doesn't mean
'require'.

>  I'm mainly on the PPTP Client side of things, and
> here is what we have on this;
> 
> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#mppc

Very interesting...

/fc




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