[e2e] TCP Framing

Craig Partridge craig at aland.bbn.com
Mon Mar 26 05:46:00 PST 2001


In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103231457510.7855-100000 at pescado.lanl.gov>, Mike Fis
k writes:

>I assume the argument is that it is inefficient to scan and twiddle bytes
>and that some out-of-band (ala packet segmentation) framing looks cheaper.  

COBS is a very efficient byte stuffing that doesn't require much byte
scanning.  If you're asking the question, you might go looks at Cheshire's
SIGCOMM paper and see how COBS might fit.

Craig



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