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Compression on Tunnel

matjing
Level 1
Level 1

I have the config below on two routers. I live at a place where the bandwidth costs are really prohibitive. For this reason, all the data going through the tunnel needs to be compressed.

Which is the best way to go about this, Im willing to change the whole configuration to achieve a roughly 4:1 compression ratio. Is it doable, do I need extra hardware. The tunnel endpoints are a cisco 3600 on router 1 and a cisco 7301. I'm even willing to buy hardware to achieve this. The only issue is It has to be compression over some sort of tunnel/VPN.

router1

interface Tunnel1

description WOL-Tunnel

ip address 1.2.73.249 255.255.255.252

tunnel source 1.2.73.117

tunnel destination 3.4.208.250

no shutdown

router2

interface Tunnel1

description WOL-Tunnel

ip address 1.2.73.250 255.255.255.252

tunnel source 3.4.208.250

tunnel destination 1.2.73.117

no shutdown

***Gitau

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owillins
Level 6
Level 6

Hardware compression modules are available for the 3600. Am not sure of the compression ratio. You could check out the details at the following link. You could also use compression command but I guess the compression ratio would be low.

http://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps259/products_data_sheet09186a0080088750.html