Re: [m0n0wall] Traffic shaper: bits -> bytes

From:	Vincent Fleuranceau <vincent at bikost dot com>
To:	Garrett <glc at c dash email dot com>
Cc:	m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject:	Re: [m0n0wall] Traffic shaper: bits -> bytes
Date:	Tue, 02 Nov 2004 09:13:38 +0100

-------- Original Message --------

Garrett,

> Been experimenting with m0n0's traffic shaper and noticed it seems to
> consider a byte to be slightly more than eight bits (more like 8.3-8.5

Funny!

> bits).  Is there a reason for this?  How exactly does the traffic
> shaper convert bits to bytes and vise-versa?
> 

If you're speaking of the Magic Shaper Wizard, it's normal: all 
computations are based on 95% of the  bandwidth (from the form fields), 
not 100%.

-- Vincent