Compression TCP/IP

Where in the TCP/IP protocol stack does compression occur?


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Ben




bensmyth

bensmyth wrote:
> Where in the TCP/IP protocol stack does compression occur?

Nowhere, it usually occurs at levels below it or above it. An example of
compression below the TCPIP stack would be the Van Jacobson header
compression popularly used in dial-up SLIP or PPP-based TCPIP
networking. Neither SLIP nor PPP were part of the TCPIP stack, they were
below it, and so the VJ compression occurred at that level.

An example of compression occurring above the TCPIP stack is when you
send a Zipped file across a TCPIP link, you're using application-level
compression there, which is above TCPIP.

Yousuf Khan