From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 1:29:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailarray.mpx.com.au (local2.mpx.com.au [203.29.192.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4CE14E11 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wincent@dingoblue.net.au) Received: from [192.168.0.2](really [198.142.184.171]) by mailarray.mpx.com.au via smtpd with esmtp id for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:29:18 +1100 (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.13.Y2K #30.35 built 1-mar-01) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:59:24 +1030 Subject: What are "octets"? From: wincent To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Really dumb question this one, but what are the "octets" referred to in my ppp "show physical" output? ---- Connect time: 2:36:04 40520962 octets in, 1102167 octets out overall 4445 bytes/sec currently 5946 bytes/sec (over the last 5 secs) peak 11491 bytes/sec on Thu Dec 2 17:16:37 1999 ---- Bytes? or something else? And what is actually being counted? I am not clear about the distinction between "IPCP" and "physical" throughputs.... Thanks :-) Wincent PS I am connecting via a 56K modem, so I am obsessed with milking every last drop of speed and throughput out of the connection.... heheh ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message