5.12 Suspend and Resume Notification procedures

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Upon receipt of a Suspend Notification message, the PGW-C should request the PGW-U to discard packets received for the suspended PDN connection by:

– setting the DROP flag in the Apply Action IE of the FARs of the corresponding PFCP session; or

– setting the gate fields in the Gate Status IE of QERs to the value CLOSED.

Upon being requested to resume the PDN connection, the PGW-C should re-allow the PGW-U to forward the packets for the PDN connection (unless not permitted for other reasons) by:

– setting the FORW flag in the Apply Action IE of the FARs of the corresponding PFCP session; or

– setting the gate fields in the Gate Status IE of QERs to the value OPEN.