Andrew Doran writes:
> [Cc:'d to tech-net because I think it's worth discussion].
> 
> 
> From the ppp(8) manpage below. Yes, probably not a good idea for leased
> line 
> operation, but for operation over analogue/PSTN devices, ppp(8) is great
> (I 
> regularly see 5-30, sometimes 90k *bytes*/sec over 33.6 modem w/ppp(8)).
> Can 
> we not provide both, and let users decide? ppp(8) has a different
> feature-domain 
> than pppd(8).

This can really achieve 30:1 compression rates?  Over what period
of time, and what kind of files?  I can see it easily reaching 5KB/sec, 
or more,  but 30KB/sec, or 90KB/sec?  For text files 10:1 doesn't seem
completely unreachable, but 30:1 with any kind of "normal" traffic?
With 'lptest 79 10000' gzip -9 gets like 147:1 compression.  Using 
'/usr/games/banner' and an english sentence, gzip -9 gets about 40:1.

On one of our routers with a hardware compression card, we're seeing a
compression ration of 2.213 with about 550MB of typical traffic.

-Andrew
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