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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Simple question, what is an inOctet ... ?
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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.



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