Units reported by ifconfig

Scott James Remnant scott at canonical.com
Thu Jul 17 09:34:21 BST 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:02 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:

> Op maandag 14-07-2008 om 10:53 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Scott James
> Remnant:
> > Since ifconfig deals with bytes streamed, you can arguably claim it
> > should be multiples of 1,024 or multiples of 1,000.  Someone just needs
> > to decide.
> 
> Traditionally, bandwidth has always been measured in multiples of 10,
> not multiples of 2.
> 
Citation Needed.

Scott
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