Re: PPPoE - VJ compression support.

Carsten Bormann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pppext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 01 2004, at 15:34 Uhr, Mania wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Most of the freeware PPPoE clients do not seem to support VJ 
> compression on
> the PPPoE sessions and it looks like VJ compression is not supported on
> PPPoE
> sessions.  I am not able to locate any references in the standard RFC
> mentioning about VJ compression on PPPoE sessions.  I understand that 
> VJ is
> primarily used  for PPP over HDLC (slow-speed links)/ISDN links.
>
> Could anyone clarify whether VJ compression needs to supported on PPPoE
> sessions or not ?

It certainly does not need to be (as has already been answered).

VJ compression also is a poor match to today's TCPs.
With options such as SACK and timestamps prevalent, RFC 1144 simply 
does not work any longer.

The IETF ROHC working group is in the process of finishing a new TCP 
header compression scheme that will work with current TCPs and also 
anticipates innovations like ECN.

Gruesse, Carsten


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