RE: IPCOMP and IPSEC

[Avram Shacham <[e-mail]>]

Eric,

At 04:20 PM 5/29/98 -0400, Eric Dean wrote:

>Streaming a contiguous file through a compression device is not 
>indicative of real Internet traffic.  Packets of various application are 
>interleaved within flows.  The Calgary files may be a good benchmark for 
>comparing different compression algorithms in a stateful environment; 
                                                 ^^^^^^^^ how comes?

>however, they do not represent the stateless environment that the 
>Internet represents.

In my tests, I ftp-ed and http-ed random collection of files, with
identical results, so it seems that the Calgary Files are a pretty good
indication for non-pre-compressed files.

avram