04-13-2004 01:58 PM - edited 03-10-2019 07:45 AM
I use Cisco ACS for Radius AAA to remote access users. The radius accounting logs have the columns Acct-Input-Octets, Acct-Output-Octets, Acct-Input-Packets, and Acct-Output-Packet. I found documentation explaining these fields but nothing on the value of an octet or packet. For example, If I have the value 900 under Acct-Input-Octets, where 8 bits or 8 bytes received from the remote client? Also, if there were 1,000 packets received what is the size of one packet?
04-20-2004 10:48 AM
Any update on this ?
04-20-2004 12:27 PM
An octet is 8 bits.
RFC2866 explains these RADIUS attributes.
06-14-2004 01:41 AM
A Byte has 8 bits but an actet has only 4 bits!!!
Details on IP Frameformat:
06-14-2004 05:02 PM
I don't understand how you came to that conclusion. Read any of the RADIUS RFCs. The RFCs even have diagrams of the RADIUS packet and attribute formats. They even number each bit in the octet, e.g
0 1 2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
| Type | Length | Value ...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Type
The Type field is one octet.
or just google it.
06-15-2004 11:20 PM
HI sanpatel,
sorry for the confusion everyone! You are right, of course. Seems to be that I had a temporary blackout ;-)
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