{"id":312,"date":"2014-10-13T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2015-01-14T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:06:24","slug":"tcp-header-compression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/tcp-header-compression\/","title":{"rendered":"TCP header compression on a Cisco router"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TCP header compression is used to compress TCP headers in a network to save bandwidth on a link.  However, TCP header compression comes at a cost in terms of processor time (delay\/serialization delay).<\/p>\n<p>Conditions: must be configured on both ends of the network to compress and decompress packets.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n<code>cisco_router1(config)# interface serial0\/1\r\ncisco_router1(config-if)# ip address 172.16.10.1 255.255.255.252\r\ncisco_router1(config-if)# ip tcp header-compression\r\n\r\ncisco_router2(config)# interface serial0\/0\/1\r\ncisco_router2(config-if)# ip address 172.16.10.2 255.255.255.252\r\ncisco_router2(config-if)# ip tcp header-compression\r\n\r\ncisco_router1# show ip tcp header-compression\r\n\r\ncisco_router2# show ip tcp header-compression<\/code>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>efficiency improvement factor = (bytes saved + bytes sent) \/ (bytes sent)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TCP header compression is used to compress TCP headers in a network to save bandwidth on a link. However, TCP header compression comes at a cost in terms of processor time (delay\/serialization delay). Conditions: must be configured on both ends of the network to compress and decompress packets. cisco_router1(config)# interface serial0\/1 cisco_router1(config-if)# ip address 172.16.10.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-ios","category-qos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltonoverip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}