From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 11 14:47:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2623737B404; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3BLlqN95277; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:47:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:47:52 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: networking fact checking for book Message-ID: <20020411174752.A95261@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020411163557.A94744@blackhelicopters.org> <200204112143.g3BLhil0088620@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200204112143.g3BLhil0088620@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:43:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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