Interface Bandwidth Units SI or IEC?

[tboston]

Hey,

I was wondering if the Units being displayed in the Traffic Graph are either SI or IEC Units?

We never thought about that but now that we're importing pfSense Data into Grafana, we just spotted that there would be either bits/sec(SI) or bits/sec(IEC)

For reference:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/units.7.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

Cheers
Tony

[JKnott]

@tboston

I believe that distinction is relevant only where powers of 2 are used, such as memory size. I don't believe that applies to data rates, which have always been in powers of 10. It's been that way for as long as I've been in the telecom business, almost 50 years. I certainly have never heard of bandwidth expressed in numbers based on binary.