On 990910, at 23:35:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, David Ellement wrote:
> > It seems my modem enables data compression by default, but my ISP
> > doesn't support data compression. Once I disabled data compression, I
> > stopped getting the RX frame errors.
>
> This is odd. I thought compression was negotiated between the modems,
> so if one didn't agree to it, the other wouldn't use it. For one to
> compress/decompress and the other not should result in a steady stream
> of garbage, I think.
>
> Maybe the ISP is driving the its modem ports at exactly the protocol
> speed, and compression by the modems could result in a different
> effective speed that confuses their modem. If the compression scheme
> involves packing frames or so I can see how that could confuse things.
> If that's the case, they should tell their modems not to compress.
An epilogue:
I didn't have the ppp-compress-* aliases in /etc/conf.modules. Once I
added them, I didn't need to disable compression in the modem.
--
David Ellement
