Joe Frankiewicz wrote the following to Craig Ford, and I quote (in part):
-> Microcom has made the technique for negotiating V.42bis over MNP4
-> freely avaialble.
JF> Last time I was involved with MNP10, the spec was far from free,
JF> they charged a GREAT deal of money for it.
It is true that MNP service levels beyond 4 are not free, but the techniques
to implement V.42bis over level 4 are.
DB> Does any modem other than those marketed by Rockwell chipset DB>
> stuffers use extended v.42?
-> Yes. Lucent, Motorola, and ZyXel support it.
JF> Let's keep the terminology straight, there is no such thing as
JF> "extended V.42". MNP10 makes use of ***MNP Extended Services***
JF> for negotiation of this stuff. V.42 knows nothing about this, as
JF> it is only documented in proprietary Microcom specs.
In this circumstance we're only refering to V.42bis over MNP4. Implementation
of MNP10 is a different animal.
Regards....
Craig
aka: cford@ix.netcom.com
: craig.ford@2001.conchbbs.com
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