Vendor-Id AVP

Description of AVP

AVP	Description
Vendor-Id	The Vendor-Id AVP (AVP Code 266) is of type Unsigned32 and contains the IANA "SMI Network Management Private Enterprise Codes" [ASSIGNNO] value assigned to the vendor of the Diameter application. In combination with the Supported-Vendor-Id AVP, this may be used in order to know which vendor specific attributes may be sent to the peer. It is also envisioned that the combination of the Vendor-Id, Product-Name and the Firmware-Revision AVPs may provide very useful debugging information. A Vendor-Id value of zero in the CER or CEA messages is reserved and indicates that this field is ignored. NOTE: The Vendor-Id AVP is a sub-AVP, which is used in the group AVP vendor-specific-application-id.

AVP

Description

Vendor-Id

The Vendor-Id AVP (AVP Code 266) is of type Unsigned32 and contains the IANA "SMI Network Management Private Enterprise Codes" [ASSIGNNO] value assigned to the vendor of the Diameter application. In combination with the Supported-Vendor-Id AVP, this may be used in order to know which vendor specific attributes may be sent to the peer. It is also envisioned that the combination of the Vendor-Id, Product-Name and the Firmware-Revision AVPs may provide very useful debugging information.

A Vendor-Id value of zero in the CER or CEA messages is reserved and indicates that this field is ignored.

NOTE:

The Vendor-Id AVP is a sub-AVP, which is used in the group AVP vendor-specific-application-id.

Reference Standards

RFC 3588 clause 5.3.3