From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 5 22:07:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03824 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:07:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA03802 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id DAA05330; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:58:06 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199810060258.DAA05330@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Dummynet To: vev@michvhf.com (Vince Vielhaber) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:58:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Vince Vielhaber" at Oct 5, 98 09:25:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Two dummynet questions. > > 1) If I have example.com limited to 50KB/s and 10 hosts from example.com > connect, are each of the 10 limited to 50KB/s or is it a total number? total. > 2) What's the difference between 50K/s and 50k/s? Note the lower case K. > It seems to make a difference. (I admit I didn't go thru the source for > this one). i'd have to lookup the source myself, but K should definitely work as a *1000 multiplier and k maybe not. Whether we should also accept lowercase letters and/or use 1024 instead of 1000, that's another story, but in networking i have always seen K for 1000 and M for 1000000 cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message