Re: (PM) STAC Cards

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
21 May 1998 01:25:45 GMT

According to Josh Richards <jrichard@livingston.com>:
>STAC has absolutely no relation or knowledge of what the underlying link
>is. You can run it over POTS, ISDN, CT1, or a tin-can and a string
>(although I'm not aware of any IETF standards covering that last one..)
>;-)

What about the link specified in RFC 1149?

>The client software just has to support it. Windows 95/NT supports it
>with the latest updates installed. If you dial in with another router
>such as an OR using the async interface on it, you can do STAC just fine.
>I'm not sure about MacOS. Linux should have some patches that do it, or
>if not it will soon.

I didn't know NT supported STAC yet - I thought NT only did MS-STAC,
which the PM-3 didn't support.

As for Linux, I don't know if it will be supported or not. I looked
into it a little, and as far as I could tell the algorithm is patented
and must be licensed, which pretty much rules out a Linux version. I
would be happy to be proved wrong, but I never found an actual
description of the algorithm anywhere.

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