Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:47:52 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: networking fact checking for book Message-ID: <20020411174752.A95261@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <200204112143.g3BLhil0088620@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:43:44PM -0700 References: <20020411163557.A94744@blackhelicopters.org> <200204112143.g3BLhil0088620@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:43:44PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > 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. Thank you, sir! tuning(7) says K. After the recent funfest on -doc about K, Kb, KB, &etc, I was no longer sure. Plus, I had written "bits" in one part of the sentence, and "bytes" later on... ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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