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re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets
Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 11:18 am
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Posted by Barney (3 messages posted)


On Saturday, September 1, 2001 at 4:24 pm, Eric Luna wrote:
>Hello. I have noticed that some of my Win2K Pro machines have Activity measured in
>packets in the Local Area Connection Status window and others have bytes. I tried
>to find some sort of trend as to why - maybe vendor specific to the card or board,
>or service pack level - but found nothing. Could anyone please provide some insight
>into this matter and possibly let me know how to specify which setting I want.

This issue is dependent on the net card's driver, some drivers support bytes and packets, some only support packets. The display is in bytes if the card's driver supports it, otherwise it falls back to packets.


Written in response to:
Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (Eric Luna: Saturday, September 1, 2001 at 4:24 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (MrKool: Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 9:35 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (Eric Luna: Sat, Sep 1, 2001, 4:24 pm)
*re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (Eric Luna: Mon, Nov 12, 2001, 6:40 pm)
-re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (Barney: Thu, Dec 13, 2001, 11:18 am)
*re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (MrKool: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 9:35 pm)
*re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (mike: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 5:56 pm)
-re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (Nate: Sun, Sep 2, 2001, 3:54 pm)
*re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (Marcelo: Wed, Oct 24, 2001, 2:10 pm)
*re: Local Area Connection Status - bytes or packets (Eric Luna: Sun, Sep 2, 2001, 8:56 pm)
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