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Date:      Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:58:06 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        vev@michvhf.com (Vince Vielhaber)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dummynet
Message-ID:  <199810060258.DAA05330@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981005212559.vev@michvhf.com> from "Vince Vielhaber" at Oct 5, 98 09:25:40 pm

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> Two dummynet questions.
> 
> 1)  If I have example.com limited to 50KB/s and 10 hosts from example.com
> connect, are each of the 10 limited to 50KB/s or is it a total number?

total.

> 2)  What's the difference between 50K/s and 50k/s?  Note the lower case K.
> It seems to make a difference.  (I admit I didn't go thru the source for
> this one).

i'd have to lookup the source myself, but K should definitely work as
a *1000 multiplier and k maybe not. Whether we should also accept
lowercase letters and/or use 1024 instead of 1000, that's another story,
but in networking i have always seen K for 1000 and M for 1000000

	cheers
	luigi

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