Open5GS Traffic Accounting

[Spencer Sevilla]

+1 to Harald. Doing traffic accounting at the PGW and then reporting these statistics over Diameter is probably the most architecturally correct way to do this. I'm definitely a fan of using IPTables for this kind of stuff, since it’s all just packets anyways.

For our networks, we wrote a completely separate tool called haulage (https://github.com/uw-ictd/haulage) that uses IPTables and does something very similar. Basically logs packets that are forwarded from the virtual interface, draws them down against a user’s prepaid quota, and cuts them off when they hit zero. We wrote this as a separate app (in go) mainly to keep things simpler and let us move faster.

Spencer

> On Mar 11, 2020, at 09:26, <david at ispsupplies.com> <david at ispsupplies.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry yeah I meant the EPC.  I am not sure if the Open5GS software supports
> it but Freediameter would be the Accounting portion in AAA from what I can
> tell.  
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Welte <laforge at osmocom.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:53 AM
> To: david at ispsupplies.com
> Cc: 'Romeu Medeiros' <medeiros at medeiros.eng.br>; nextepc at lists.osmocom.org
> Subject: Re: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 07:56:06PM -0400, david at ispsupplies.com wrote:
>> Freediameter should be able to provide accounting so long as the ENB
> supports it.
> 
> in which way is the eNB involved in traffic accounting in LTE?  
> 
> Normally, AFAICT, accounting is implemented within the P-GW, potentially
> interacting via Radios/Diameter or some other protocol with some external
> entity that decides whether or not there is credit/budget remaining or not.
> If not, the PGW would stop firwarding packets of the related
> session/subscriber.
> 
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