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'''Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression''' is a [[data compression]] protocol described in '''RFC 1144''', specifically designed to improve [[Internet protocol suite|TCP/IP]] performance over slow serial links developed by [[Van Jacobson]]. Van Jacobson compression reduces the normal 40 [[byte]] TCP/IP packet headers down to 3-4 bytes for the average case. It does this by saving the state of TCP connections at both ends of a link, and only sending the differences in the header fields that change. This makes a very big difference for interactive performance. Van Jacobson Header Compression (also VJ compression, or just Header Compression) is an option in most versions of [[Point-to-Point Protocol|PPP]]. Versions of [[SLIP]] with VJ compression are often called CSLIP (Compressed SLIP).

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Van Jacobson Header Compression (also VJ compression, or just Header Compression) is an option in most versions of [[Point-to-Point Protocol|PPP]]. Versions of [[Serial Line Internet Protocol]] (SLIP) with VJ compression are often called [[CSLIP]] (Compressed SLIP).

* RFC 1144

== External links ==

* RFC{{IETF RFC|1144}}

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