Testing Openbsc without a BTS

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Holger Hans Peter Freyther holger at freyther.de
Thu May 9 08:29:25 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 02:24:55PM +0800, Priyanka Behl wrote:

Hi,

> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to test Openbsc without a BTS. I need your help as I am very new to Openbsc.
> After doing the configurations for openbsc-multitrx.cfg file this is how I started the process:

you might want to look at my mails about a pure software BTS used to
test OpenBSC. The mails are here[1][2].


> cd openbsc/openbsc
> src/osmo-nitb -c doc/examples/osmo-nitb/nanobts/openbsc-multitrx.cfg -C
> Openbsc> subscriber id 1 send sms Hello
> Openbsc> subscriber id 1 silent call start any
> %subscriber not attached

This is to be expected. Our system enforces a periodic location
updating procedure and if a subscriber will not do that, it will
be expired. Your subscriber needs to make a Location Updating Procedure.

holger


[1] http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/openbsc/2012-October/004210.html
[2] http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/openbsc/2012-October/004250.html




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