Re: BGP over satellite link - update!!

[Geert Jan de Groot <geertj at nsrc.org>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:51:50 +0100  Brian Candler wrote:
> For example you
> could run IP-over-IP tunnels between R1 and R2 (e.g. GRE). 

I would be very careful with making tunnels this way.
A normal TCP ACK packet is 40 bytes long (20 IP, 20 TCP),
but a tunnel like GRE would bloat such packets to 60 bytes
by adding another 20 bytes for an additional IP header.

Geert Jan

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