[Dime] diameter overload protection

"Poscic, Kristian (Kristian)" <kristian.poscic@alcatel-lucent.com> Tue, 17 December 2013 01:05 UTC

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From: "Poscic, Kristian (Kristian)" <kristian.poscic@alcatel-lucent.com>
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Hi,
I've been reading through the draft-docdt-dime-ovli-01<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-docdt-dime-ovli/> draft and would appreciate one clarification.
I know that a lot of discussions has been going on about the exact mechanisms and treatment of the AVPs but I'm missing something more basic.

It seems like that the draft suggests that for session aware applications (I'm interested in Gx application in particular), the mechanism relies on the reporting node to send the overload capability and indication over a session (piggybacking).
Does this mean that the reacting node throttles traffic for all Gx sessions destined to the dest-host/realm (as reported in ReportType), or only the traffic for that particular session over the report is received.
I would imagine that the reacting node would need to throttle all traffic (otherwise the overload protection mechanism would be greatly diminished), although this seems very unnatural - to receive the request over a single session but the action should be applied to all sessions.
Thanks,
Kris