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inbound, outbound ?

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Hi ,

What is exatcly inbound and outbound means?

inbound means server is downloading someting and outbound means upload ?
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Accually, it's in relation to the interface being monitored. So, if it is a port on a switch that is connected to a server, inbound would be traffic from the server and outbound would be traffic to the server, from the perspective of the switch.
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Post by research »

okay , so outbound is upload which is coming from outside and inbound is download


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research wrote:okay , so outbound is upload which is coming from outside and inbound is download
If you're graphing the interface on the server, yes.

If you're graphing traffic on a switch, then it's opposite like rony said. When downloading a big file, you'll probably see inbound on the uplink port and then outbound on the port connected to the server.
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