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Christian Gennerat wrote:
> 
> About Standard aliases:
> > modprobe -c
> ...
> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> ...
> 
> Why bsd_comp is the standard alias?
> /src/linux/Configure.help says that
> 
> The PPP Deflate compression method ("PPP Deflate compression",
>   above) is preferable to BSD-Compress, because it compresses better
>   and is patent-free.
> 

ppp-compress-21 refers to PPP compression method 21, which happens to
be BSD Compress. Deflate is 26 (and also 24, because it was assigned
that
value in the draft RFC).

Aliasing ppp-compress-21 to anything other than bsd_comp would break
PPP.
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