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From: mra@searchtech.com (Michael Almond)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: SLIP/PPP perf. differences
Message-ID: <1991May23.023743.3969@searchtech.com>
Date: 23 May 91 02:37:43 GMT
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In article <7611@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>Header compression brings your 41-byte echo packet down to something
>like 3 bytes, by eliminating redundant information which appears
>repeatedly in packet headers during the course of a connection.  Each
>side of the protocol must maintain a table of active connections.

Why doesn't regular TCP/IP use this?

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