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    >Does anybody have an idea to get better performance from ISODE 6.0 ?? 
    >Does anybody try something like "header prediction
    >theory" on TP4 ??  Please let me know.  

    Dr. Van Jacobson, from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, used header 
    prediction to improve performance over low-speed SLIP lines. Maybe he has
    done similar work for TP?

Jacobson's header prediction algorithms grew out of a need to better
utilize the bandwidth of very low speed links.  As a consequnce, he found
that by being able to predict the next packet to be received, he could also
reduce the calculations the tcp code had to do, and increase performance on
high speed links also.  A jaded hacker would cry "obvious, that's just
checking for the common case first - a standard optimization technique",
which is essentially true, but never the less, such techniques had yet
to be applied to TCP - most vendors being more or less content with
implementations that were at least "correct", and "reasonably fast".

I doubt that ISO and TP4 implementations have yet reached the level of
maturity where this sort of optimization would produce much overall
improvement.

BillW
speaking for myself.
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