From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DervishD Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:17:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] About "b" meaning "byte" and bit Message-Id: <20070903091729.GA24496@DervishD> List-Id: References: <20070831162624.GA6133@DervishD> In-Reply-To: <20070831162624.GA6133@DervishD> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi Indunil :) * Indunil Jayasooriya dixit: > On 8/31/07, DervishD wrote: > > Hi all :) > > > > I think that this issue has already been discussed on this list, but > > google didn't find anything interesting, so I'm bringing the subject > > again. > > > > The output of "tc" uses "b" meaning "byte" and "bit" for "bit". The > > "official" suffixes for those units are "B" and "b", respectively, and > > on top of this, I'm not sure if "kbit" means "kilobit" or "kibibit" in > > "tc" output. > > >=20 > SEE below that was taken form this URL >=20 > http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm >=20 >=20 > Please read: tc tool (not only HTB) uses shortcuts to denote units of rat= e. > kbps means kilobytes and kbit means kilobits ! This is the most FAQ about= tc > in linux. Yes, I already knew that, what I was asking is why SI units are not used and "shortcuts" are used instead: see my original message, I was not sure if kilobit was being used correctly (meaning 1000 bits) or if it was being used mistakenly for kibibit (1024 bits), and on top of that, why "b" was being used as byte when the SI prefix for byte is "B". I mean, tc doesn't seem to follow any standard except maybe in kilobit (which should be then used as kb, not kbit). Ra=FAl N=FA=F1ez de Arenas Coronado --=20 Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! We are waiting for 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 +0000 ... _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc