Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:34:44 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple question, what is an inOctet ... ? Message-ID: <20040324173443.GA1389@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20040324120016.Q3456@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040324120016.Q3456@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:01:39PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Just setup net-snmp, and zabbix to monitor it ... what exactly is an > Octet? 1 byte? An octet is eight bits. A byte is also usually eight bits, but this is not universally true. 'Octet' is used in many standards-documents to have an unambigous term for a collection of eight bits, since 'byte' does not have a well-defined size. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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