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Date:      Thu, 02 Dec 1999 12:40:28 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        wincent <wincent@dingoblue.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What are "octets"? 
Message-ID:  <66796.944131228@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:59:24 %2B1030." <B46C801B.1A71%wincent@dingoblue.net.au> 

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On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:59:24 +1030, wincent wrote:

> Really dumb question this one, but what are the "octets" referred to in my
> ppp "show physical" output?

Sequences of 8 bits.  A byte isn't _always_ made up of 8 bits, so the
term octets is more precise.  If you're used to thinking of a byte as a
sequence of 8 bits, read octets as bytes. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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