[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion of the right meaning for input > vs. output with respect to acct-in/output-octets/packets? > > In RFC 2866, it says: > > Acct-Input-Octets = This attribute indicates how many octets have > been received from the port over the course of this service being provided.
Remember, this is from the view that users connect to a port on the NAS. So data received "from the port" means "from the user". See also the Livingston Portmaster documentation: http://portmasters.com/tech/docs/radius/accounting.html They are the people who wrote the original RADIUS specification, so they should know what it means. > In the manual of a popular commercial access controller, it says: > > Acct-Input-Octets = Number of octets/bytes received by the customer. That is wrong. It is number of bytes received FROM the customer, TO the NAS. > Which is a rather "outward" way of looking at the "port" referred to in > RFC. I have also seen it defined in the reverse way. To be standard with > commercial gear, I have taken the above definition as being the 'right > way' ... other opinions? Follow the standards. Do not follow broken vendors. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html