From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 5 22:18:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05973 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:18:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from at.dotat.com (zed.dotat.com [203.38.154.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05936 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hart@at.dotat.com) Received: from at.dotat.com (localhost.dotat.com [127.0.0.1]) by at.dotat.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07654; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:50:14 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199810060520.OAA07654@at.dotat.com> To: Vince Vielhaber cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dummynet Reply-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:25:59 -0400." Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:50:14 +0930 From: Leigh Hart Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Vince, Followups set to freebsd-net ... Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > 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? if example.com in your ipfw rule is a net/mask and each of the 10 hosts from example.com match that net/mask then yes, I imagine all will be limited to 50KB/s collectively. That is my understanding, anyway :) > 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). At a guess, K/s is kilobytes/second and k/s is kilobits/second That's the popular convention I'm used to anyway. Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart, | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | Dotat Communications Pty Ltd | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | GPO Box 487 Adelaide SA 5001 | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | http://www.dotat.com/hart/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message