IP Services Gateway AAA AVP Support

This appendix presents a quick reference for message-level AVP support for the IPSG.

The following table describes the indicators used in the quick reference table.

Table 1. Indicators used in the Quick Reference Table
Indicator Description

M

Mandatory, one or more instances of the AVP MUST be present in the message.

O

Optional, zero or more instances of the AVP MAY be present in the message.

C

Conditional, the AVP can be mandatory or optional depending on the dictionary used.

Table 2. IPSG AVP Support Quick Reference Table
Attribute Accounting-

Request-

Start

Accounting-

Request-

Interim

Accounting-

Request-

Stop

Access-

Request

Disconnect-

Message Request (PoD message initiated by IPSG)

Notes

User-Name

C

C

C

C

C

Optional for custom54. If this AVP is present, it is used. Else a default value "void" will be used as username in ipsgmgr.

Mandatory for starent-vsa1.

Acct-Status-Type

M

M

M

M

M

Acct-Session-Id

M

M

M

O

M

Framed-IP-Address

M

M

M

O

M

Mandatory if Framed-Ipv6-Prefix in not present

Framed-Ipv6-Prefix

M

M

M

O

M

Mandatory if Framed-IP-Address is not present

Calling-Station-ID

C

C

C

C

C

Optional for starent-vsa1. Even though the AVP is present, it will be set to NULL and processed by ipsgmgr.

Mandatory for custom54.

Called-Station-ID

M

M

M

M

O

Optional for profile subscriber

User-Password

O

O

O

O

O

Event-Timestamp

O

O

O

O

O

NAS-Port-Id

O

O

O

O

O

NAS-Port

O

O

O

O

O

NAS-Port-Type

O

O

O

O

O

NAS-IP-Address

O

O

O

O

O

IPv4 address of the GGSN for communication with the AAA server.

NAS-Identifier

O

O

O

O

O

Hostname of the GGSN for communication with the AAA server.

Framed-Protocol

O

O

O

O

O

Acct-Input-Packets

O

O

O

O

O

Acct-Output-Packets

O

O

O

O

O

Acct-Authentic

O

O

O

O

O

Acct-Delay-Time

O

O

O

O

O

Vendor-Specific

O

O

O

O

O

Class

O

O

O

O

O

Service-Type

O

O

O

O

O

Connect-Info

O

O

O

O

O

Proxy-State

O

O

O

O

O

3GPP-IMSI

O

O

O

O

O

Optional, otherwise IPSG configured value used in CPC Request.

3GPP-Charging Characteristics

O

O

O

O

O

Contains the charging characteristics for this PDP context received in the Create PDP Context request message.

3GPP-Negotiated-QoS-Profile

O

O

O

O

O

Represents the QoS profile for the PDP context.

3GPP-GGSN-MCC-MNC

O

O

O

O

O

MCC-MNC of the network the GGSN belongs to.

3GPP-SGSN-MCC-MNC

O

O

O

O

O

For GGSN and PGW connected to a Gn/Gp SGSN, it represents the MCC and MNC extracted from the RAI within the Create PDP Context Request or Update PDP ContextRequest message.

For P-GW in GTP/PMIP S5/S8 it represents the MCC and MNC extracted from the Serving Network.

3GPP-RAT-Type

O

O

O

O

O

3GPP-SGSN-Address

O

O

O

O

O

3GPP-GGSN-Address

O

O

O

O

O

It represents the IPv4 address that is used by the GTP control plane for the context establishment.

3GPP-User-Location-Info

O

O

O

O

O

Used to inform the change in user location.

3GPP-IMEISV

O

O

O

O

O

3GPP-Charging-Id

O

O

O

O

O

3GPP-Selection-Mode

O

O

O

O

O

Not used in IPSG.Contains the selection mode for this PDP context received in the Create PDP Context request message.

3GPP-NSAPI

O

O

O

O

O

Identifies a particular PDP context for the associated PDN and MSISDN/IMSI from creation to deletion.

3GPP-PDP-Type

O

O

O

O

O

Not used in IPSG. PDP type determined based on IPv4 or IPv6 address.

3GPP-MS-TimeZone

O

O

O

O

O

SN-Transparent-Data

O

O

O

O

O

SN1-Transparent-Data

O

O

O

O

O

SN-Assigned-VLAN-ID

O

O

O

O

O

SN1-Assigned-VLAN-ID

O

O

O

O

O

SN1-Vpn-Name

C

C

C

C

C

Mandatory if the Overlapping IP Address feature is enabled.