Re: IPCOMP and IPSEC

"Saroop Mathur" <saroop@cylan.com> Sat, 30 May 1998 01:36 UTC

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From: Saroop Mathur <saroop@cylan.com>
To: Eric Dean <edean@gip.net>, Daniel Harkins <dharkins@cisco.com>
Cc: Stephen Waters <Stephen.Waters@digital.com>, ippcp@external.cisco.com, ipsec@tis.com
Subject: Re: IPCOMP and IPSEC
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:02:18 -0700
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Eric,

The compression ration depends a lot on the type of data and the packet
size. Using IPSEC will not change the compression ratio since compression
is done before IPSEC.

- Saroop

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> From: Eric Dean <edean@gip.net>
> To: Daniel Harkins <dharkins@cisco.com>
> Cc: Stephen Waters <Stephen.Waters@digital.com>;
ippcp@external.cisco.com; ipsec@tis.com
> Subject: Re: IPCOMP and IPSEC 
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 3:39 PM
> 
> > Anybody out there want to test IPSec and IPCOMP together? Send me an
> > email.
> > 
> 
> Sure, we tried IPCOMP without IPSec and got about 1.05:1 compression
ratio
> though.  I can't wait for after IPSec.
>  
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