Topic: PPTP VPN enable compression?

[jameswilson]

Everything is working fine, but i dont get any compression reported from windows xp. I use this to keep our mobile data use down as low as poss. All the info i can find seems to old, or refered to upgrading a package which seems like a bad idea. Is this something that we cant do?

James

[cactus]

According to this page you will explicitly have to specify this on the client:

By default pppd tries to negotiate MPPC and don't negotiate MPPE but will agree if peer wants encryption.

[CharlieBrady]

Is this something that we cant do?

Correct - MPPC is patented, and Red Hat doesn't have a patent license, and isn't prepared to challenge the vallidity of the patent.

http://endsoftpatents.org/

[jameswilson]

Fair enough
Thanks all.