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

[DervishD]

    Hi Indunil :)

 * Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75 at gmail.com> dixit:
> 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.

    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).

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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