On Aug 05, "Andrew Craick" wrote: > We're running a flow-stat -f32 -n -S3 and the output is displayed in > Octects. Can somone confirm that octects definetly equals bytes in this > situation. If so, if i wanted to convert 41525421960 octets into Gigabytes > i would get 38.6 Gbytes. ((41525421960 / 1024)/1024)/1024 = 38.6 Gigbytes.
Looks good to me. "Octets" is what the networking community uses to refer to 8-bit bytes. I suspect that this came about when some architecture people started talking about 16 bit bytes for fancy 16 bit processors, but that usage has died off and I've never heard anybody intentionally say that their byte has something other than 8 bits. My Freshman CS Professor referred once to a "nibble"...4 bits! :) Mike _______________________________________________ Flow-tools mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.splintered.net/mailman/listinfo/flow-tools
