Accounting and octets - a silly one! was Re: Freeradius-Users Digest, Vol 108, Issue 13

[Rui Ribeiro]

Octets means bytes, and in fact it also the most used french word in lieu
of byte. Historically, and very long long ago, the point is that byte was
not always 8 bits - there were very old mainframes with 9 bits.

Regards,

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> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:28:11 +0200
> From: Chris Knipe <savage at savage.za.org>
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> Thanks all for clearing it up - as I said, really stilly question :-)
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> I must have pulled some old stuff off google then that referenced
> octets as *possibly* being bits...
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> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Arran Cudbard-Bell
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> > On 3 Apr 2014, at 09:36, Chaigneau, Nicolas <
> nicolas.chaigneau at capgemini.com> wrote:
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> >> "octets" means "bytes".
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> > Yes, in modern systems they are synonymous.
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> > Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
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