tlug: 50% packet loss

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

I talked with Alan Cox about that patch to ppp.c to fix the 50% packet
loss - he says that Linux optimizes PPP frames in such a way that if your
modem/TA's firmware has a faulty PPP implementation, it will not recognize
the optimization, and will drop 50%.  The optimization is perfectly valid
as per the PPP specs.  Win95 doesn't perform any optimization, so the
problem doesn't happen there.

Therefore, if you have an AIWA TM-AD1280 terminal adapter, you'll have to
apply that patch to use it under Linux.  Therefore #2, I'm not going to
put my specially patched kernel into TL 1.4J, but I'll make it available
on the CDs in a separate directory and also by FTP.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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