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| author |   Bernd Eckenfels <net-tools@lina.inka.de> | 2001-11-12 01:46:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Bernd Eckenfels <net-tools@lina.inka.de> | 2001-11-12 01:46:20 +0000 |
| commit | 68ca19b05184262c3cbdac9778fef136d2655179 (patch) | |
| tree | b3c59ccb7b2fbe7aee939193b190e0842369e763 /man | |
| parent | added SI unit patch from adam@cfar.umd.edu to output of ifconfig byte (diff) | |
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added documentation about SI prefixes for decimal numbers
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/en_US/ifconfig.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 b/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 index 087b7d7..64647ac 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, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> .br @@ -199,4 +206,6 @@ Alan Cox, <Alan.Cox@linux.org> .br Phil Blundell, <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com> .br -Andi Kleen; Bernd Eckenfels, <net-tools@lina.inka.de> +Andi Kleen; +.br +Bernd Eckenfels, <net-tools@lina.inka.de> |