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

[[e-mail] (Rob Adams)]

This gets us back into the MTU issue.    Shouldn't we be cranking down the MTU 
for a route so that we can slide in our extra 40 bytes anyway? 

-Rob

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From: 	Roy Pereira[SMTP:[e-mail]]
Sent: 	Wednesday, February 19, 1997 8:59 AM
To: 	'Bob Monsour'
Cc: 	'[e-mail]'; '[e-mail]'
Subject: 	RE: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply) 

To me the biggest benefit of using compression within ESP is the fact
that I wont have to FRAGMENT as many packets as I would normally due to
the addition of ESP's 40+ byte overhead.

Fragmentation can slow down links considerably, especially when they are
low-speed (28.8k), thus anything that helps prevent fragmentation is a
"good thing".
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