It can be confusing. Imagine yourself sitting inside the NAS and looking out the ports to the users. Then, anything sent to a port (output from the NAS) is going to the user and anything sent from a port (input to the NAS) is from the user.
Hope that helps. Zoltan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thor Spruyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeRadius Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Acct-Input-Octets & Acct-Output-Octets > Hi, > > I have been reading the RFC 2866 (Radius Accounting) and I think the > supplier of my NAS has interpreted the RFC the wrong way. > > According to me, the RFC says that: > - Acct-Input-Octets are the octets that went from NAS to User > - Acct-Output-Octets are the octets that went from User to NAS > And my supplier does it the other way round. > > Am I making the wrong interpretation here? > > This is what the RFC says: > <QUOTE> > 5.3. Acct-Input-Octets > > Description > > This attribute indicates how many octets have been received from > the port over the course of this service being provided, and can > only be present in Accounting-Request records where the Acct- > Status-Type is set to Stop. > > 5.4. Acct-Output-Octets > > Description > > This attribute indicates how many octets have been sent to the > port in the course of delivering this service, and can only be > present in Accounting-Request records where the Acct-Status-Type > is set to Stop. > </QUOTE> > > -- > Regards, > > Thor Spruyt > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W: www.thor-spruyt.com > M: +32 (0)475 67 22 65 > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
