[LARTC] About "b" meaning "byte" and bit

[Indunil Jayasooriya]

On 8/31/07, DervishD <lartc at dervishd.net> 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.
>

SEE below that was taken form  this URL

http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm


Please read: tc tool (not only HTB) uses shortcuts to denote units of rate.
kbps means kilobytes and kbit means kilobits ! This is the most FAQ about tc
in linux.




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Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya
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