Re: Network Throughput
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
>
> > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This
> > machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the
> > box, some streams have 1000k window size for a certain reason. How do
> > I tune the NICs to handle the streams better? There are ways of doing this
> > on other OSs. Right now, the box only does about 1.8Mb when it should be doing
> > 80+Mb.
>
> I guess you are mixing up MBit and MByte.
> Phil
You too, it is Mb for megabit and MB for megabyte.
Same for kB = kiloByte.
Please do not use silly shorts, like
mb = milibit, or
KB = Kelvin Byte
All this is consistent with SI (= Systeme International).
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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