RAN/NAS Cause IE support in S2b Messages

Feature Information

Summary Data

Applicable Product(s) or Functional Area

ePDG

Applicable Platform(s)

Cisco ASR 5500, VPC-SI, VPC-DI

Feature Default

Disabled – Configuration Required

Related Changes in this Release

Not Applicable

Related Documentation

  • ePDG Administration Guide

  • Command Line Interface Reference Guide

  • Release Change Reference (RCR)

Revision History

Revision Details

Release

Release Date

New in this release.

21.2

April 27, 2017

Feature Description

This feature supports RAN/NAS Cause IE in S2b messages, IE is sent in the below S2b messages:
  • Delete Session Request

  • Create Bearer Response

  • Update Bearer Response

Key functionalities of RAN/NAS Cause IE in S2b Messages:
  • IE is sent in delete session request to denote the internal/UE/Diameter cause, which will result in session termination.

  • IE is sent in Create Bearer Response to denote the internal cause due to which the “request bearer creation” have to be rejected. As ePDG does not interact with UE/AAA for create bearer request it will send internal cause codes.

  • IE is sent in Update Bearer Response to denote the internal cause due to which the “request bearer update” have been rejected. As ePDG does not interact with UE/AAA for update bearer request, so ePDG will send internal cause codes.

  • New CLI is introduced under call-control profile which enables/disables sending of RAN/NAS Cause IE and internal failure causes.

Assumptions and Limitations

  • eGTPC rejected requests do not have RAN/NAS Cause IE stack.

  • If Notify Payload is not received as part of Delete request from UE, internal failure cause would be sent in RAN/NAS cause IE.

Configuring RAN/NAS Cause IE support in S2b

New CLI introduced as part of RAN/NAS Cause IE support in S2b
config 
           call-control-profile  profile_name 
             epdg-s2b-gtpv2 send ran-nas-cause internal-failure protocol-type 8    
             [remove] epdg-s2b-gtpv2 send ran-nas-cause internal-failure   
          exit  
       exit 

Monitoring and Troubleshooting the ePDG RAN/NAS Cause IE Support In S2b

New show command outputs introduced as part of RAN/NAS Cause IE support in S2b:

show call-control-profile full name
  • Sending RAN NAS CAUSE

  • Sending RAN NAS CAUSE Internal Failures

  • RAN NAS CAUSE Internal Failures Protocol Type