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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:52:12 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, vev@michvhf.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dummynet 
Message-ID:  <199810071752.LAA17076@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:03:41 BST." <199810060703.IAA05689@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 
References:  <199810060703.IAA05689@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>  

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In message <199810060703.IAA05689@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Luigi Rizzo writes:
: > At a guess, K/s is kilobytes/second and k/s is kilobits/second
: 
: actually i don't remember well how i implemented this in ipfw, but i
: think KB is for kilobyte and K or Kb is for kilobit
: 
: (with K=1000, not 1024)

kb/s == 1000 bits per second.
Kb/s == 1024 bits per second
kB/s == 1000 bytes per second
KB/s == 1024 bytes per second.

In the SI units, as expanded for computer folks, b == bits, B ==
bytes, k == 1000 and K == 1024.  M == 1000000 or 2^20 (or sometimes
1024 * 1000).

Warner

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