<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm wondering if <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">anyone has an opinion of the right meaning for input vs. output with respect to acct-in/output-octets/packets?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">In RFC 2866, it says:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Acct-Input-Octets = This attribute indicates how many octets have been received from the port over the course of this service being provided.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">In the manual of a popular commercial access controller, it says:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Acct-Input-Octets = Number of octets/bytes received by the customer.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">David</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>