[c-nsp] Tool to Calculate Rate Limits

[Ziv Leyes]

Totally agreed, it's a lost battle, even if it's so simple to understand
When I go to the grocery to buy 1 Kg of rice, I'm not expecting to get 1024 g of it, right?
1 Kg = 1000 g
1 Km = 1000 m
And so on, but I'd like to see you sending a customer to read RFC1594 and make it sound like NOT sending them to hell...

Ziv


-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Freedman
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 6:45 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Tool to Calculate Rate Limits

Smales, Robert wrote:
> 
>> 1 mbps = 1000000 bps, no?
> 
> Arguably, but if you were a customer you could argue that 1M is 1024 x 
> 1024, so I compromise at 1000 x 1024 :-)
> 

One could also argue RFC 1594:

"Kb      Kilobit
        10^3 bits of information (usually used to express a
        data transfer rate; as in, 1 kilobit/second = 1Kbps = 1Kb).
"

Dave.


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David Freedman
Group Network Engineering
Claranet Group

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