Re: RFC3332: RC in DAVA Message

Madhavan,

pls see my comments inline.

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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 [email protected] wrote:

> Hi !!
> 
> I am currently involved in configuration of SGW to AS(doing this type of 
> configuration for first time) & need following clarification as I cannot 
> pick this out in clear way from RFC.
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> - AS sends DAUD to SGW without Routing Context
> - AS receives DAVA with routing context parameter.The contents are tag 
> id & length of the parameter without any value.In this case the length 
> is 4 bytes (2 bytes for tag id & 2 bytes for length field itself)
> 
> Question:
> 
> Since AS has not sent a RC in DAUD, i assume the field should not be 
> received in DAVA.Is my assumption inline with RFC ?
RC is a 'conditional' parameter that means it is very much needed when an
ASP serves more than one AS. In your case if the received RC does not find
any match in the static or dynamic databases then it is appropriate to
send an ERROR msg to SGW.

> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Kind Regards,Madhavan
> 
> 
> 
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