Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:12:33 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: bmah@california.sandia.gov, Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, spork <spork@super-g.com>, Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, root@bmccane.maxbaud.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TweakDUN Message-ID: <199806201512.IAA24849@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:20:14 BST." <199806201120.MAA01601@awfulhak.org>
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--==_Exmh_1824908736P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Brian Somers wrote: > > Where you *do* lose is the fact that for each of those packets, you have 40 > > > bytes of headers (20 IP + 20 TCP) that you can't lose for data. So you can > > > use 1460/1500 = 97% of the bytes in a packet for "real data", or 536/576 = > 93% > > of the bytes. (Again, discounting link-level framing overheads.) > [.....] > > And turning on VJ compression just about negates this overhead. D'oh! You're absolutely right, of course. Sigh... Bruce. --==_Exmh_1824908736P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNYvRYajOOi0j7CY9AQG3CwQAg7uHgfWtrqOe8CLOvWDwwFhhMPr9XwwP CRW87F6P/Cg1nodKiTNZ+K50FtZfqjTw/UxCY3p6Wcre2bHZXDuAEECUnzDjBJUd 2NjSdbULaYMr1/QaH15sOVZcG3epN2IP6y2SLN+pj4Rk/vlRauNOSCr32psTh8w7 kLFrHy7H8mE= =syxT -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_1824908736P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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