[SR-Users] Billing party and radius accounting

[Juha Heinanen]

Efelin Novak writes:

> I have a problem with setting billing party in my radius messages. My
> accounting is done by CDRTool via radius messages to radius server. The
> thing I don`t know is how to set billing party variable (by default
> $avp(s:billing_party) with reliable value. I can try adding Diversion header
> and fill the variable with it, but can I trust the Diversion header? When
> UAC sets redirect(302) and Invite comes, he replies 302 and Kamailio passes
> this message to origin. However is it possible to change Diversion header by
> UAC? This could be way how to make free calls and bill it to someone
> else.

you bill the uac who sends an invite that results to 200 ok reply,
not the party that replies with 302 (unless your proxy converts 302 to
invite in which case you bill the uas).

-- juha