Compatibility tested PPP servers with the Nokia
9290 Communicator:
Cisco AS5300
Cisco AS5200
Shiva Access Switch
Shiva LanRover E+
Microsoft NT RAS 4.0
Ericsson Tigris AXC 623
Ascend Max 4004
Lucent PortMaster 3
Nortel/Bay Networks Versalar 8000
Morning Star PPPD
Various Linux/Unix based PPP daemons conforming
RFC 1661
6.8 Default parameters and settings
• Async Control Character Map (ACCM) 0x00000000
• Dynamic protocol timeout for LCP, IPCP, CCP, PAP, and
CHAP 3 seconds
• Maximum Receive Unit (MRU) 1500
• Magic number negotiation is on
• Address and Control field Compression is on
• Maximum configure request restart 10
• Maximum configure Naks before failure 5
• Link quality report interval 10 seconds
• Compression method negotiation order (PPP compression
on by default):
• Stac LZS mode 3
• Stac LZS mode 4
• Microsoft PPC
• Predictor 1
• PPP callback is off
• TCP/IP-header Van Jacobson compression on
• TCP maximum segment size (MSS) 536 bytes
• Maximum time-to-live (TTL) 64
• Default PPP idle timeout is 2 minutes
• Show connection dialog is off
• Proxy servers are off by default
• Default data call parameters are normal analog data-
calls, autobauding, and no AT commands
• Plain text login is allowed by default
• Login scripts are not used by default
• IP addresses and DNS addresses are requested dynami-
cally from server by default
• For SSL and TLS, a collection of well-known certification
authorities’ root certificates has been installed and
marked as trusted
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