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Destination-Host AVP with DRA in between

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In case there is a DRA between PGW and PCRF, then what should ideally be sent in the Destination-Host AVP in the CCR-Initial messsage?Do we send the Destination-Host name for the final destination of the PCRF or is it the next hop peer ; which is the DRA in this case?

posted Apr 15, 2018 by Aahan Mozumdar

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DRA act like a relay or rather we can say kind of load balancer, in your case PCRF is the destination so DRA will route the packets from PGW to PCRF.

Thanks,
Chinmoy

answer Apr 16, 2018 by anonymous
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When DRA sits between sender and receiver Diameter nodes, its job is to route the Diameter message to right destination. It does not change the destination host and realm of the original request message however it changes hop-by-hop ID and adds route-record avps for all the requests it forwards.

answer Apr 16, 2018 by Harshita
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