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Subject: Re: git: b5a8abe9502e - main - How to show interface traffic in bits per second
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Zhenlei Huang writes:

> When netstat reports every 8 seconds, you're gonna get `8 * bytes per 8 
> seconds`, so you still get `bytes per second` but not `bits per second` 

Netstat -I reports bytes since last update, not bytes per second.

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