[Sis-csi] IP Header Compression

[Scott,Keith L.]

Until that ipid happened to show up in somebody's data stream!

  --keith



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Subject: Re: [Sis-csi] IP Header Compression

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0400, Scott,Keith L. wrote:
> I'd appreciate that.  You can in fact get a few bytes of information
> into an IP header ('special' source and destination ports, ipproto,
> maybe even IP options).  It'd be interesting to know what GPM thought.

Just using the IP identification field (2 bytes) in an agreed upon way
could be sufficient, and would probably be more robust than a lot of
other fields that might get translated or modified in-transit.

-Wes

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Wesley M. Eddy
Verizon FNS / NASA GRC
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