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Re: Proposal for IP Peer protocol



In message <199906091612.MAA17182@brill.shiva.com>, John Shriver writes:
> The Van Jacobsen header compression relies on two things that PPP
> provides and IPsec "tunnels" don't provide:
> 
> 2. The receiver gets information about lost (bad CRC) frames.  (This
> is more of a hint, but still important.)

The ESP or AH checksums are much stronger than CRCs, and can be used to
discard damaged packets.





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