How To Configure Ipx And Ncp Header Compression On An Interface - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

How to Configure IPX and NCP Header Compression on an Interface

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When you enable header compression, you can also specify the number of
compression slots . A compression slot is a location in router memory that
stores packet header information. The compression algorithm uses this
information to compress outgoing—and decompress incoming—packet
headers.
By default, the number of allocated compression slots is 16. In general, a
session between two end points uses one slot; routing information uses one or
two. Each slot can contain an IPX or an NCP header. When no more slots are
available, packet headers are sent uncompressed, or old slots are reused.
For more information about IPX and NCP header compression and related
topics, refer to "Header Compression" on page
IMPORTANT:
To use header compression, the routers at each end of the
connection must have header compression enabled and must allocate the same
number of header compression slots . If the number of compression slots is
different on each router, IPXWAN selects the lesser of the two.
This topic contains the following sections:
"How to Configure IPX and NCP Header Compression on an Interface"
on page 70
"How to Configure IPX and NCP Header Compression per Call
Destination" on page 71
To configure IPX and NCP header compression on a WAN interface, complete
the following steps:
1
Load NIASCFG, then select the following parameter path:
Select Configure NIAS > Protocols and Routing > Bindings > a WAN
interface > Expert Bind Options
2
Select Header Compression .
This parameter enables or disables header compression for all IPX
packets sent through this interface. By default, header compression is
enabled on all WAN interfaces; if you want to disable it on the interface,
select Disabled .
3
Select Compression Slots , then enter the number of slots you want to
allocate to this interface.
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