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Re: (ASCEND) Link-Comp-MS-Stac stops working (fwd)



At 11:09 AM 11/22/97 -0500, Phillip Vandry wrote:
>> Once upon a time Phillip Vandry shaped the electrons to say...
>> >> NT does NOT support STAC compression of any kind *unless* they are
>> >> BETA testing NT5.0 ??
>> >Really? I can't say for sure what they're running but I don't think it's
>> >NT5.
>> 
>> Really - NT does MPPC, not Stac.  Win95 does MS-Stac instead of Stac.
>> 
>> The difference?  Stac = LZS Option 3, MS-Stac = LZS Option 4.
>> 
>> Sure they aren't running Win95?
>
>Could be. The machine refuses FTP connections while NT usually accepts them.

NT would only accept the connection of the FTP server is running - mine for
example refuses it in my standard configuration. (I have the Chameleon suite
installed to support all this).

>> I've seen some info that is scary - there is supposed to be a ton of new
>> proprietary PPP extensions in Win98 and NT5.
>
>Dodn't the 0x80,0x81,0x82 and 0x83 DNS and WINS IPCP options start out as
>proprietary, only to be published later as an RFC?

An informational RFC - like we did with MP+. It was not standards track, and
therefore not on the recommended list. It is documented so that anyone who
wants to implement it can - makes it a little "less proprietary" ;)

>I remember reverse engineering this to implement it on our old UNIX
>terminal servers -- I couldn't find docs.

There is an Informational RFC....


Kevin


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