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Header Compression.

  • From: medved@npr.legent.com (Pat Medved)
  • Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 16:06:06 CDT



I was reading some studies which indicate up to 70 % of TCP/IP
packets are < 10 bytes.  For ATM that means 2 cells per packet.
If we were using header compression, then these would only need one cell.
I have seen some papers mentioning this.  I also saw studies indicating
that the 64KB window size will be too small.

So I had the following questions?

Can RFC1144 be used over ATM?  If the final destination
lies on the other side of some router, will the negotiation just
fail for the TCP connection and just not allow compression and not cause anything
to break?


window size.  If RFC1106 size is used (this uses TCP options), can this be used
along with header compression?



Thanks,
Pat Medved

medved@npr.legent.com