: RE: [Dime] RE: Diameter base protocol messages used by DCCA

RFC4006 5.2.2 states that Credit-Control AVP  MUST be added to AAR to
indicate credit-control capabilities.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Kristensen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:13 PM
> To: Glen Zorn (gwz)
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Dime] RE: Diameter base protocol messages used by DCCA
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> Glen Zorn (gwz) wrote:
> > Harri Hakala (TU/LMF) <mailto:[email protected]>
> supposedly scribbled:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> >>AA Request/AA Answer are not necessarily equal to AAR/AAA messages in
> >>NASREQ but they mean in DCCA document a general
> >>authorization/authentication request/answer in any Diameter
> >>authorization/authentication application. Bad name example, as it
> >>seems to collide with the message name in NASREQ.
> >>
> >
> >
> > This would seem to make it quite difficult to monitor/manage
> DCCA via SNMP, since presumably one would wish to keep track of
> all the interrogations & the generic auth message is actually the
> first interrogation.   This implies that all & any such messages
> should be allocated a counter in the DCCA MIB, but the membership
> of this set of messages is not static.  Any suggestions?
>
> Have clients include an Auth-Application-Id AVP in the AAR with the DCC
> app id? It's not clear to me from the specs whether this is the
> intention or not but IMHO there really ought to be a way for the server
> to tell whether the AAR is for a NAS or DCC session - not just for
> management reasons.
>
> Anders
>
> >
> > ...
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> > ~gwz
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