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RE: IPCOMP and IPSEC

To: Eric Dean <edean@gip.net>
Subject: RE: IPCOMP and IPSEC
From: Avram Shacham <shacham@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:37:01 -0700
Cc: Stephen Waters <Stephen.Waters@digital.com>, ipsec@tis.com, ippcp@external.cisco.com
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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

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RE: IPCOMP and IPSEC

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RE: IPCOMP and IPSEC

From: Eric Dean <edean@gip.net>

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