On 27 May 2001, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> ewheeler,AT,kaico,DOT,com writes:
> > Would there be any appreciable performance increase over low bandwidth
> > lines if the packets were compressed using zlib before they were
> > encrypted?
>
> It doesn't do that much good. But it helps a little.
>
> As a comparison point, experiment a bit with ssh, using different
> compression levels in .ssh/config, e.g.
>
> Host your.chosen.test.destination.host
> Compression yes
> CompressionLevel 9
>
> Try various digits, and do some large file copying over your slow link
> with scp. Time the results.
>
I know this can help alot w/ ssh on plain text and the like but I was
wondering specifically about CIPE. Could this be implemented inthe packet
encapsulation and would we see a performance increase accross low
bandwidth lines. My guess is that it would; I just took a block of
text:
[root@dev dev]# dd if=/var/log/messages bs=1400 count=1 | gzip -v9 | wc -c
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
77.7%
330
You can see that even for mall 1400 byte packets we can get a 77% size
cut. Would it be feasible to implement this into CIPE?
--Eric