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In article <OLAV.KVITTEM.93Jan25102536@delab.sintef.no> Olav.Kvittem@delab.sintef.no writes:
    What about higher speed links - how fast can a cisco run 
    TCP Header compression - can it be done on 512 Kbps links and
    if so - what CPU-size is needed ?
    
My tests (under lab conditions) show that we could saturate a 72k link
doing an FTP (i.e., big packets) and consume about 10% of a CSC/3.  This
would suggest that a single 512K link would pretty well consume a CSC/3.
You might get away with it with a CSC/4.  

However, I'm not convinced that this is going to be a significant win.
Header compression provides the biggest advantage if you're using lots of
small packets (i.e., telnet sessions).  

    Does the number of simultanesous sessions have to be limited to
    allow any effect ?
    
Yes.  Header compression only can cache up to 254 (default 16) connections.


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