From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 7 2:19: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omnix.net (omnix.net [195.154.168.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB52D14FAA for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 02:19:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Received: (qmail 26304 invoked by uid 200); 7 Dec 1999 10:16:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 1999 10:16:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:16:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Didier Derny To: wincent Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What are "octets"? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1 octet = 1 byte in france we are using octet instead of byte. it was formed from the prefix octo octo = 8. On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, wincent wrote: > Really dumb question this one, but what are the "octets" referred to in my > ppp "show physical" output? > > ---- > > Connect time: 2:36:04 > 40520962 octets in, 1102167 octets out > overall 4445 bytes/sec > currently 5946 bytes/sec (over the last 5 secs) > peak 11491 bytes/sec on Thu Dec 2 17:16:37 1999 > > ---- > > Bytes? or something else? And what is actually being counted? I am not clear > about the distinction between "IPCP" and "physical" throughputs.... > > Thanks :-) > Wincent > > PS I am connecting via a 56K modem, so I am obsessed with milking every last > drop of speed and throughput out of the connection.... heheh ;-) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message