Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.3(4)T

The billing server responds to the service authorization Access-Request packet with an Access-Accept 
packet that defines the quota parameters for the connection. 

 describes the Access-Accept for a 

service authorization request. Authorization for a service is provided according to the presence and 
content of the Quota (Attribute 26) and the Idle Timeout (Attribute 28) vendor-specific attributes (VSAs) 
in the Access-Accept.

The Quota VSA in the service profile has been enhanced to inform the billing server of the reason for 
the reauthorization request. 

 describes the enhanced Quota VSA.

1

User-Name

1

1.

The User-Name is the name of the subscriber and not the name of the service. The name of the service is indicated by the 
Service Name VSA.

MS subscriber name

2

PAP Password

Global service profile password

4

NAS IP Address

SSG IP address

6

Service-Type

Framed-user

7

Framed Protocol

Framed protocol

26

Vendor-Specific

Name of service

Subattribute ID 251; 
code N.

31

Calling-Station-ID

MSISDN

2

2.

The Calling-Station-ID attribute is for additional user identification and is optional. This attribute is present only if the 
corresponding host object on SSG contains this information. The Calling-Station-ID attribute is used for hosts in mobile 
wireless environments and SESM 3-Key users.

44

Acct-Session-ID

Session ID

61

NAS-Port-Type

Async (value=0)

6

Service-Type

Framed-user

26

Vendor-Specific

Quota

Subattribute ID: 253. 
The value “Q” 
indicates that this is 
the Quota VSA.

28

Idle Timeout

Prepaid idle timeout