At 16:01 1999-01-21 -0800, Phil Karn wrote:
>This is an interesting topic for this group. The usual instinct is to
>minimize headers when operating on a slow (e.g., wireless) channel,
>but sometimes a little extra overhead might actually improve
>performance. You don't have to avoid very many TCP data packet
>retransmissions to repay the cost of the TCP header timestamps.
The IP header compression scheme can compress TCP headers that contain
the Timestamp Option.
Cheers,
Micke
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