--- a/include/freeDiameter/libfdproto.h	Mon May 06 18:25:50 2013 +0800
+++ b/include/freeDiameter/libfdproto.h	Mon May 06 18:49:59 2013 +0800
@@ -2084,6 +2084,9 @@
 /* If a peer returned a protocol error for this message, save it so that we don't try to send it there again. Optionally retrieve the current list of candidates. */
 int  fd_rtd_error_add(struct rt_data * rtd, DiamId_t sentto, size_t senttolen, uint8_t * origin, size_t originsz, uint32_t rcode, struct fd_list ** candidates, int * sendingattemtps);
 
+/* Only retrieve the number of times this message has been processed by the routing-out mechanism (i.e. number of times it was failed over) */
+int  fd_rtd_get_nb_attempts(struct rt_data * rtd, int * sendingattemtps);
+
 /* The extracted list items have the following structure: */
 struct rtd_candidate {
 	struct fd_list	chain;	/* link in the list returned by the previous fcts */

--- a/libfdproto/rt_data.c	Mon May 06 18:25:50 2013 +0800
+++ b/libfdproto/rt_data.c	Mon May 06 18:49:59 2013 +0800
@@ -248,6 +248,21 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* Only retrieve the number of times this message has been processed by the routing-out mechanism (i.e. number of times it was failed over) */
+int  fd_rtd_get_nb_attempts(struct rt_data * rtd, int * sendingattemtps)
+{
+	struct fd_list * li;
+	int match = 0;
+	
+	TRACE_ENTRY("%p %p", rtd, sendingattemtps);
+	CHECK_PARAMS( rtd && sendingattemtps );
+	
+	*sendingattemtps = rtd->extracted;
+	
+	/* Done! */
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /* Extract the list of valid candidates, and initialize their scores */
 void fd_rtd_candidate_extract(struct rt_data * rtd, struct fd_list ** candidates, int ini_score)
 {