Units reported by ifconfig

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:20 -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:26:50PM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:02:29PM +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.
> > 
> > But bandwidth is not the same thing as transfer; hence, "someone just needs
> > to decide".
> 
> IEEE, ISO, IEC, NIST and CENELEC all deprecate the use of SI units for
> other than powers of 10, and endorse binary prefixes like GiB.  There
> are several more comments on the bug now, including several references
> I put in on the use of binary multiples:
> 
Yet these units appear nowhere on the high street, and hardware
manufacturers continue to ignore them.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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