Re: [LIH] Kppp & file permissions

[ambarish pathak]

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> To verify, I fired a wget donload in a session. I didn't do any other network 
>activy. The donload was of 1.6 MB. I can see it from file size. But kppp  reported 
>aroung 2MB  in. There is alway difference of minimum 10% between data saved to disk 
>and bytes coming in. What are they for?

the 2MB reported also contain the control information, i guess. like
sometimes there's some packet loss resulting in a retransmission of the
same.

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