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- From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
- Subject: VJ compression (Re: Netblazer)
- In-Reply-To: larry@news.rn.com's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15: 46:18 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:20:41 GMT
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- In article <C0JL58.HqK@news.rn.com> larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- Would VJ compression with SLIP be benificial even if you have
- hardware compression (v.42bis?). If so, how much?
-
- Yes, because RFC-1144 "VJ" TCP header compression and V.42bis do
- different things. The former is application-specific to TCP datagram
- headers, so it can be very efficient at its narrow mission. The
- latter is a general-purpose data compressor, so it does a fair job on
- lots of different data.
-
- RFC-1144 reduces the number of overhead octets with which each TCP
- datagram is afflicted. It does nothing with the fare-paying cargo
- inside the packet. A typical single-character telnet packet shrinks
- from forty-something to 5-8 octets, reducing transmission time and
- therefore dramatically reducing interactive latency.
-
- V.42bis is a general purpose data compression algorithm that
- compresses everything that passes through the modem - overhead and
- data alike. V.42bis processing actually adds a little latency, but
- not so much as to be objectionable. And its effect on shrinking the
- total size of the packets helps a *lot*. You'll often see over 3Kb/s
- FTP throughput over a V.32bis (14400) carrier with a 38400 DTE, with
- very little (if any) adverse effect on latency.
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