Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links

Network Working Group V. Jacobson/1/ Request for Comments: 1144 LBL February 1990

Compressing TCP/IP Headers

for Low-Speed Serial Links

Status of this Memo

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. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

NOTE: Both ASCII and Postscript versions of this document are available. The ASCII version, obviously, lacks all the figures and all the information encoded in typographic variation (italics, boldface, etc.). Since this information was, in the author's opinion, an essential part of the document, the ASCII version is at best incomplete and at worst misleading. Anyone who plans to work with this protocol is strongly encouraged obtain the Postscript version of this RFC.

---------------------------- 1. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract Number DE-AC03-76SF00098.

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