[flow-tools] 1 Mb = 1000000 bytes?! ;-)

Mark Boolootian booloo@cats.ucsc.edu
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:41:32 -0700


> # Octets            Packets             MBytes
> #
> 500980079           2109432             500.980
> 
> I suppose it isn't correct, is it? ;-)
> I think 1Mb = 1048576 bytes....

The general rule of thumb is that you use powers of 10 when dealing
with networking and powers of 2 when dealing with storage (disk, RAM).
Note that ethernet is 10^6 bit/sec, fastE is 10^7 bit/sec, etc.  So
flow-tools is doing the right thing.

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