On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:29:36AM +0100, Christian Gennerat wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes a �crit :
>
> > Jean Tourrilhes uses :
> > o kilo-bit per seconds (kb/s), and not kilo-byte per seconds (kB/s)
> > o Netperf and ftp
> >
> > So, if you convert the kB/s to kb/s, you get roughly the same
> > number as me (64 kb/s).
> >
>
> Sorry, in France, we talk with kilo-bit per seconds (kb/s), and kilo-octet per
>seconds (ko/s)
> I have translated ko/s by kb/s instead of kB/s.
If you look in some IEEE specs and IETF RFCs, you will find
mention of octets as well. Bytes came mostly from the storage side of
CS. And not many people use kB/s, most tend to use kb/s for both.
Encore une fois, les US sont coupable d'utiliser des unitees
de mesure defaillantes...
> Yesterday, I tested my new toshoboe (2.13) driver and i got up to 120 kB/s via ftp
> with the kernel-source rpm file (20MB). But after several stop and start, the
>transfer rate
> was only 100, 90 and 80 kB/s.
Hum... At least, it's working...
> After that, i applied the (first) speed patch, and the irnet ppp starts only when
>both sides
> are started together.
There was a bug in the first patch. Sorry for that. But I
would not have expected such a consequence...
Have fun...
Jean
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