Compression in PPP was great in the age of ISDN to increase speeds. The more common use cases, and trends concerning TLS1.3 advancements.
Having this enabled by default, and infrequently used could lead to unintended consequences around how the data is passed around. Index: GENERIC =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/conf/GENERIC,v retrieving revision 1.274 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.274 GENERIC --- GENERIC 25 Feb 2021 01:19:35 -0000 1.274 +++ GENERIC 25 Mar 2021 18:07:58 -0000 @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ option TCP_SIGNATURE # TCP MD5 Signatur option INET6 # IPv6 option IPSEC # IPsec -option PPP_BSDCOMP # PPP BSD compression -option PPP_DEFLATE +#option PPP_BSDCOMP # PPP BSD compression +#option PPP_DEFLATE # Disabled by default, TLS1.3 trends option PIPEX # Ppp IP EXtension, for npppd option MROUTING # Multicast router option MPLS # Multi-Protocol Label Switching
