On Fri, 5 Apr 1996 01:02:45 -0600 (CST) 
 ccsanady@tomservo.aeem.iastate.edu wrote:

 > server is an SGI and im attempting to use bsdcomp 15,15.  anyway, when i
 > use pppstats -z it shows no compression at all.  here is the pppd debug
 > output related to the compressino negotiation..

Make sure you have:

options         PPP_BSDCOMP     # BSD compression for PPP

In you config file ... these were made options to reduce kernel bloat.  I 
thought there was a post to current-users about it, but I could be wrong...

BTW, you can also have:

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