From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 7 10:52:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08922 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA08908; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zQxlC-0004Aa-00; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:52:26 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA17076; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:52:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199810071752.LAA17076@harmony.village.org> To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: Dummynet Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, vev@michvhf.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:03:41 BST." <199810060703.IAA05689@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199810060703.IAA05689@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:52:12 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199810060703.IAA05689@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Luigi Rizzo writes: : > At a guess, K/s is kilobytes/second and k/s is kilobits/second : : actually i don't remember well how i implemented this in ipfw, but i : think KB is for kilobyte and K or Kb is for kilobit : : (with K=1000, not 1024) kb/s == 1000 bits per second. Kb/s == 1024 bits per second kB/s == 1000 bytes per second KB/s == 1024 bytes per second. In the SI units, as expanded for computer folks, b == bits, B == bytes, k == 1000 and K == 1024. M == 1000000 or 2^20 (or sometimes 1024 * 1000). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message