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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: [packet sizes]
- Message-ID: <nlnoulo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <2794@ucl-cs.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:17:32 GMT
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- In article <2794@ucl-cs.uucp>, J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) writes:
- >
- > i agree about the bi-modal distribution, but one minor point:
- >
- > if you have all pervasive B-ISDN, it is certainly pretty crazy to run
- > TCP/IP, with 40 byte headers, or TP4/CLNP with absolutely enourmous
- > headers - you can use very small headers quite reasonably
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- As with VJ-compression? Or just plain compression.
- (The IETF PPP working group is worried about compression between routers
- at 56K.)
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- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-