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To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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Subject: Re: networking fact checking for book 
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If memory serves me right, Michael Lucas wrote:

> OK, damn fool question here, but our docs are not entirely consistent
> on this and I need to be sure before I send this book to the printer.
> Rather than trawl through the source code for hours and get it wrong,
> I'm asking here.
> 
> net.inet.tcp.sendspace= bits or bytes?

Bytes...memory allocations take place using this variable.

I couldn't find anywhere in sys/netinet/* that actually, explicitly
documents the units for this.

Bruce.



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