jkrey@ISI.EDU (Joyce K. Reynolds) (03/03/90)
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RFC 1144:
Title: Compressing TCP/IP Headers
for Low-Speed Serial Links
Author: V. Jacobson
Mailbox: van@helios.ee.lbl.gov
PS-Pages: 45 ASCII-Pages: 49
PS-Characters: 534,729 ASCII-Characters: 120,959
pathname: RFC:RFC1144.PS
This RFC is a proposed elective protocol for the Internet community
and requests discussion and suggestions for improvement. It describes
a method for compressing the headers of TCP/IP datagrams to improve
performance over low speed serial links. The motivation,
implementation and performance of the method are described. C code
for a sample implementation is given for reference.
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Joyce K. Reynolds