From: Peter Puczko (ppuczko@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 13:38:10 GMT-3
I disagree. When calculated in bits 1 kilobit=1000 bits.
When calculated in bytes 1 kilobyte=1024 bytes.
Why they did it this way? I have no idea. So be careful.
3Mb is 3,000,000 bits
But 3MB=3,072,000 bytes
Peter
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:00:04 -0500, Hardin Les - SMTP wrote:
>
> FYI.
>
> Actually, 3Mbps = 3,072,000 bits per sec.
>
> Les
>
> At 02:37 AM 2/15/2001 -0800, Derek Buelna wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was thinking that if I was asked to configure this I'd probably do it
> >one way but they would have wanted it the other way.
> >
> >In lab 18 I believe it says to limit broadcasts on a port, on the
> >catalyst, to 3Mb/s.
> >
> >Ok, so I read that the percentage of bandwidth method is more accurate
> >and also hardware based but the answer uses the per packet method.
> >
> >I'm taking it that 3,000,000 bits/s / 8 = 375,000 bytes/s. I'm
> >assuming that an average packet size of 1024 would make for an average
> >throughput of 366.21 of these kinds of packets/s.
> >
> >Am I understanding this correctly?
> >
> >Wouldn't it be easier to just say 30%, since it's a 10,000,000 bits/s
> >link?
> >
> >set port broadcast 2/9 367
> >set port broadcast 2/9 30%
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-Derek
> >
> >
> >
> >
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