From 49c5ce3ac40c2bdebdb3a8ca7cc65a2413f983d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ecki Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 01:46:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added documentation about SI prefixes for decimal numbers --- man/en_US/ifconfig.8 | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 b/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 index 087b7d7f2..64647ac25 100644 --- a/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 +++ b/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH IFCONFIG 8 "29 June 2001" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH IFCONFIG 8 "11 Nov 2001" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME ifconfig \- configure a network interface .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ rules for the address using the .BR ipchains(8) command. .LP +Since net-tools 1.61 ifconfig is printing byte counters with SI units. So +1 KiB are 2^10 byte. Note, the numbers are truncated to one decimal (which can +by quite a large error if you consider 0.1 PiB is 112.589.990.684.262 +bytes :) +.LP Interrupt problems with Ethernet device drivers fail with EAGAIN .I (SIOCSIIFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable) it is most likely a interrupt conflict. See @@ -192,6 +197,8 @@ While appletalk DDP and IPX addresses will be displayed they cannot be altered by this command. .SH SEE ALSO route(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8), ipchains(8) +.br +http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html - Prefixes for binary multiples .SH AUTHORS Fred N. van Kempen, .br @@ -199,4 +206,6 @@ Alan Cox, .br Phil Blundell, .br -Andi Kleen; Bernd Eckenfels, +Andi Kleen; +.br +Bernd Eckenfels, -- 2.11.4.GIT