Oh thanks! I did not realize that an ACR would be sent on a REGISTER. That
solves that question in my mind.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Robert Day (projectclearwater.org) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bud,
>
>
>
> Thanks – I understand your question better now. The good news here is that
> incrementing that part of a Session-Id doesn’t indicate a retransmission –
> that’s just how we generate a new Session-Id to represent a new session.
> Your ACA was perfectly acceptable – there’s just a new event (e.g. another
> REGISTER) a minute later that’s creating a new, different ACR.
>
>
>
> You can see more information about the format of the Session-Id at
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6733#section-8.8 – basically, the
> recommended value is “<DiameterIdentity>;<high 32 bits of a monotonically
> increasing 64-bit value>;<low 32 bits of a monotonically increasing 64-bit
> value>”. So when you see 192.168.1.109;1460692734;1388 and then
> 192.168.1.109;1460692734;1389, that doesn’t mean it’s a retransmission – it
> just means we’re sending a new event that’s part of a new session (perhaps
> triggered by another REGISTER), so we’ve incremented our counter by 1 (so
> the lowest 32 bits were 1388, and are now 1389) and generated a new
> Session-Id based on that counter.
>
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bud Asterisk [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 18 April 2016 15:32
> *To:* Robert Day (projectclearwater.org) <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Project Clearwater] CTF Rf interface
>
>
>
> Robert,
>
> Thanks! In the ACR you can see the session ID as
> 192.168.1.109;1460692734;1388 and then I send the ACA back with the same
> session ID.
>
> CW will in about a minute later send me another session ID  this time
> ending in 1389, then 1390 etc.
>
> I believe the number after the ';' is indicating a retransmission of a
> prior ACR. This keeps on going for days with that number being incremented
> every minute. This telling me that CW is not liking my ACA. Once it gets an
> ACA back that makes it happy it will stop sending ACRs on that specific
> session.
>
> I can send you a longer PCAP if you want showing the dialogue but either
> there is a bug in CW in terms of processing my ACA or there is a bug in my
> ACA format which is causing CW to reject it and send me an incremented ACR.
>
> Bud,
>
>
>
>
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> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Robert Day (projectclearwater.org) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Bud,
>
>
>
> I’ve taken a look at the PCAP trace you’ve sent, and this looks quite
> normal to me – Ralf sends an Accounting-Request containing billing
> information, and the CDF sends an Accounting-Answer to acknowledge it. The
> Accounting-Answer just acknowledges the request (so we don’t need to send a
> retransmission or fail over, for example) – Ralf doesn’t need to do any
> processing on the answer, or answer the answer, or otherwise signal
> acceptance in any way.
>
>
>
> Could you clarify what you’re expecting to see in this trace that you’re
> not seeing, or what you’re seeing that you don’t expect? Also, you mention
> that “CW just keeps sending the same session ID of a ACR but the instance
> is incremented” – I’m not quite sure what you mean by this, and your PCAP
> trace only shows one ACR and one ACA (nothing is being resent).
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Clearwater [mailto:[email protected]]
> *On Behalf Of *Bud Asterisk
> *Sent:* 15 April 2016 17:08
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Project Clearwater] CTF Rf interface
>
>
>
> Folks,
>
> One quick question. Attached is a trace from my CDF connected to my CW-AIO
> instance on a VM. ACRs are flowing and I am responding with ACA but for
> some reason CW  does not like them. I am getting no error logs of substance
> from Ralf. Wireshark is not showing my ACA badly formatted. My CDF works
> with other vendors IMS components. But CW just keeps sending the same
> session ID of a ACR but the instance is incremented. I believe the CDF is
> responding correctly. Any insights as to why CW is not accepting it? my
> format or CW bug?
>
>
>
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