[tor-relays] Tor bandwith question

[Markus Koch]

2016-11-03 3:35 GMT+01:00 grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Michael Armbruster <tor at armbrust.me> wrote:
>>> Well, Tor-relay-debian says 250KBps (bytes):
>>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en
>>>
>>> But Tor-doc-relay says 2Mbps (bits):
>>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en
>>
>> Which is exactly the same, so it's ok :)
>
> No it's not ok because 'K' is not a valid prefix.

Welcome to geek culture!

> And 'b' (bits) is the proper context that network
> hardware and network applications use, not 'B' bytes.

Welcome to Linux culture!

> Whoever wrote / maintains that doc needs to fix it.
> And all posters in this thread posted invalid stuff too.
>

CCNP here, you are technically correct, good luck fighting with both cultures.

> No wonder users and operators are perpetually
> confused about what rates are, which rates
> have significance in tor, and how to configure them.
>
> See prior posts links wikipedia for using units / prefixes.

Markus