On 20 Nov 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is a bit less than obvious... It can be sure about its own kBps, but > wire protocols may vary... 100Mbps of ethernet is not 100/16 ofr 16Mbps > token ring is not 100/1.044 of T1 is not ...whatever.... rsh,, ssh, and > rsync transport protocols vary in overhead... the one thing of which rsync > can be certain is the number of bytes of actual data it transfers... At > least, that's my take on it.
Right... sockets work in bytes, not bits, and as Tim says there is always overhead. Dividing wire speed in bits/s by ten often gives a reasonable estimate for bytes/s, since most transports have some framing or interpacket or redundancy overhead. -- Martin
