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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

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