7.2.0 General

29.2743GPP3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS)Evolved General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol for Control plane (GTPv2-C)Release 18Stage 3TS

A node shall include the Recovery information element if it is in contact with the node’s peer for the first time, or if the node or the node’s peer has restarted recently and the new Restart Counter value has not yet been indicated to the peer. The peer receiving the Recovery information element shall handle it as when an Echo Response message is received but shall consider the rest of the message in accordance with the message semantics and parameters.