Lab 4.

3 TCP Header Compression

Learning Objectives Configure TCP header compression Verify TCP header compression

Topology Diagram

Scenario In this lab, you will configure TCP header compression across a link and verify it by establishing a Telnet session over the link. This lab does not use the Pagent TGN application for traffic generation. Step 1: Configure Addressing Configure all of the physical interfaces shown in the diagram. Set the clock rate on the serial link to 64000 and use the no shutdown command to enable all of the interface addresses in the topology diagram.
R1(config)# interface serial0/0/0 R1(config-if)# ip address 172.16.12.1 255.255.255.0 R1(config-if)# clock rate 64000 R1(config-if)# no shutdown R2(config)# interface serial0/0/0 R2(config-if)# ip address 172.16.12.2 255.255.255.0 R2(config-if)# no shutdown

Step 2: Enable Telnet Access on R2 Enable telnet access on R2 by setting a VTY line password to cisco.
R2(config-if)# line vty 0 4 R2(config-line)# password cisco

Step 3: Enable TCP Header Compression TCP header compression is used to compress TCP headers in a network to save bandwidth on a link. However, TCP header compression comes at a cost in terms of processor time.
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TCP header compression must be configured on both ends of the network to compress and decompress packets. RTP header compression is configured similarly, although it is not shown in this lab. Issue the ip tcp header-compression command in interface configuration mode to enable TCP header compression. A class-based form of the command is used in the modular QoS CLI (MQC), but that information will be covered in later labs. Configure this command on the Serial 0/0/0 interfaces on both R1 and R2.
R1(config)# interface serial0/0/0 R1(config-if)# ip tcp header-compression R2(config)# interface serial0/0/0 R2(config-if)# ip tcp header-compression

Describe a traffic profile in which TCP header compression can be very useful.

Step 4: Verify TCP Header Compression Issue the show ip tcp header-compression command to view statistics for compressed TCP headers.
R1# show ip tcp header-compression TCP/IP header compression statistics: Interface Serial0/0/0 (compression on, VJ) Rcvd: 0 total, 0 compressed, 0 errors, 0 status msgs 0 dropped, 0 buffer copies, 0 buffer failures Sent: 0 total, 0 compressed, 0 status msgs, 0 not predicted 0 bytes saved, 0 bytes sent Connect: 16 rx slots, 16 tx slots, 0 misses, 0 collisions, 0 negative cache hits, 16 free contexts

Generate some TCP traffic by connecting from R1 to R2 via Telnet.

R1# telnet 172.16.12.2 Trying 172.16.12.2 ... Open

User Access Verification Password: cisco R2> exit [Connection to 172.16.12.2 closed by foreign host] R1#

Verify that the TCP traffic was compressed.

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R1# show ip tcp header-compression TCP/IP header compression statistics: Interface Serial0/0/0 (compression on, VJ) Rcvd: 17 total, 16 compressed, 0 errors, 0 status msgs 0 dropped, 0 buffer copies, 0 buffer failures Sent: 19 total, 18 compressed, 0 status msgs, 0 not predicted 622 bytes saved, 181 bytes sent 4.43 efficiency improvement factor Connect: 16 rx slots, 16 tx slots, 1 misses, 0 collisions, 0 negative cache hits, 16 free contexts 94% hit ratio, five minute miss rate 0 misses/sec, 0 max R2# show ip tcp header-compression TCP/IP header compression statistics: Interface Serial0/0/0 (compression on, VJ) Rcvd: 19 total, 18 compressed, 0 errors, 0 status msgs 0 dropped, 0 buffer copies, 0 buffer failures Sent: 17 total, 16 compressed, 0 status msgs, 0 not predicted 537 bytes saved, 229 bytes sent 3.34 efficiency improvement factor Connect: 16 rx slots, 16 tx slots, 1 misses, 0 collisions, 0 negative cache hits, 16 free contexts 94% hit ratio, five minute miss rate 0 misses/sec, 0 max

Given the numbers in the output of the commands shown above, identify how the efficiency improvement factor is computed:

Final Configurations
R1# show run ! hostname R1 ! interface Serial0/0/0 ip address 172.16.12.1 255.255.255.0 ip tcp header-compression clock rate 64000 no shutdown ! end R2# show run ! hostname R2 ! interface Serial0/0/0 ip address 172.16.12.2 255.255.255.0 ip tcp header-compression no shutdown ! line vty 0 4 password cisco login ! end

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