Subject: Re: pkg/22102: ttcp calculates line speed wrong.
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/09/2003 07:18:20
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> >Description:
> pkgsrc/benchmarks/ttcp calculates the line speed wrong.
> When dealing with line speeds, Kbit is 1000, not 1024; Mbit
> is 1000000, not 1048576 etc, but ttcp uses multiples of 1024
> to get the line speed.
Here is a webpage about it (which also discusses a wrap-around bug):
http://ctd.grc.nasa.gov/5610/publications/TTCP-recommend.txt
http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/ttcp/
In addition to the source code patches, the man page should add a note
showing that this change was done.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/