Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)

[Bob Monsour <[e-mail]>]

At 08:35 PM 2/27/97 -0800, Phil Karn wrote:
>>After reading my response, I think we're in violent agreement (I was just
>>being needlessly unclear). I agree that using VJ header compression *does*
>>provide a net benefit, both in conjunction with a payload compression
>
>I point out that VJ TCP/IP header compression assumes in-order
>delivery of the compressed packets. This is true over a point-to-point
>link, but it is not necessarily true over the Internet as a whole. So
>unless you're proposing that the IPSEC reorder packets, VJ header
>compression is not an option there.

Agreed. In fact there is a draft titled "Header Compression for IPv6" which
is specifically to do VJ header compression over point-to-point links. FYI,
it is at ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-degermark-ipv6-hc-02.txt.

-Bob