RFC 1144

Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 1144

V. Jacobson/1/
LBL
February 1990

Status of this Memo

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The problem
• 3 The compression algorithm
  • 3.1 The basic idea
  • 3.2 The ugly details
    • 3.2.1 Overview
    • 3.2.2 Compressed packet format
    • 3.2.3 Compressor processing
    • 3.2.4 Decompressor processing
• 4 Error handling
  • 4.1 Error detection
  • 4.2 Error recovery
• 5 Configurable parameters and tuning
  • 5.1 Compression configuration
  • 5.2 Choosing a maximum transmission unit
  • 5.3 Interaction with data compression
• 6 Performance measurements
• 7 Acknowlegements
• References
• A Sample Implementation
  • A.1 Definitions and State Data
  • A.2 Compression
  • A.3 Decompression
  • A.4 Initialization
  • A.5 Berkeley Unix dependencies
• B Compatibility with past mistakes
  • B.1 Living without a framing `type' byte
  • B.2 Backwards compatible SLIP servers
• C More aggressive compression
• D Security Considerations
• E Author's address
• List of footnotes

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