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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Preparing to Use IPTraf</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.64 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="IPTraf User's Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Exiting IPTraf" HREF="exiting.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Instances and Logging" HREF="instances.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >IPTraf User's Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="exiting.html" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="instances.html" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="PREPARINGTOUSE" >Preparing to Use IPTraf</A ></H1 ><P >This chapter provides information applicable to all of IPTraf's statistical monitors.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="NUMBERS" >Number Display Notations</A ></H1 ><P > IPTraf initially returns exact counts of bytes and packets. However, as they grow larger, IPTraf begins displaying them in increasingly higher denominations.</P ><P > A number standing alone with no suffix represents an exact count. A number with a K following is a kilo (thousand) figure. An M, G, and T suffix represents mega (million), giga (billion), and tera (trillion) respectively. The following table shows examples.</P ><DIV CLASS="TABLE" ><A NAME="AEN391" ></A ><P ><B >Table 1. Numeric Display Notations</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="4" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >1024067</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >exactly 1024067</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >1024K</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >approximately 1024000</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >1024M</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >approximately 1024000000</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >1024G</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >approximately 1024000000000</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >1024T</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >approximately 1024000000000000</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ><P > These notations apply to both packet and byte counts.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="exiting.html" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="instances.html" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Exiting IPTraf</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Instances and Logging</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >