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Alex allexander.alex at gmail.comHi, little UP: Vodafone UK and other OpCo like it (VF DE and VF GR I think) made a local femtocell network based on similar platform from ALU. Does anyone know something/ever tried to make something like connecting one of these devs to osmoHNBGW or similar? Thank you and best regards Il giorno mar 27 nov 2018 alle ore 19:56 Alex <allexander.alex at gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hi, > thanks for the answer! > > This femto seems to have a discrete simcard (it has empty slot accessible > from the external). > > I don't know the setup used by the original operator (TelecomItalia), > because I bought it from ebay. > > I found a possible reset procedure (still to be tested), but I don't think > it will "unlock" the board. > Now I'm trying to find the UART on the board, but on the testpoints i only > see "control" signals and clocks. Nothing seems to be a serial port pattern > on my oscilloscope. > > On this site > https://web.archive.org/web/20170707063235/https://wiki.thc.org/vodafone > there are some information on a really similar cell (9361 I think) from > Vodafone, which has a relly similar IPSEC config, but there ins't any spec. > > No one tried to disassemble it or do have just the serial pinout on the > board? > > On the other side I've already deployed the CN part (HLR + MSC + SSGN + > GSGN + STP + MGW + HNBGW), which seems to be fully operational, but i can't > test without a test cell. > I also thing the IuH protocol of this femto is little out-of-standard, but > from ALU documentation I can't understand the differences with standard IuH. > > The idea is to implement ALU's IuH variant on HNBGW if i can take traces > from a "lab" env, but without the femto it's just impossible. > > Il giorno mar 27 nov 2018 alle ore 18:17 Tomcsányi, Domonkos < > domi at tomcsanyi.net> ha scritto: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Femtocells are provisioned with operator data - certificates/keys to be >> able to talk to the gateway. >> Some femtocells use EAP-SIM with an embedded SIM card, others just rely >> on the configuration. If your femto supports a SIM card you can use a SIM >> card with a known Ki to connect it to your gateway (strongswan I assume). >> If however there is no SIM card support in the femtocell then you need to >> somehow re-provision the device - probably using a proprietary software and >> method. >> Sorry, this is probably bad news for you. >> >> Kind regards, >> Domi >> >> >> 2018. nov. 27. dátummal, 9:33 időpontban Alex <allexander.alex at gmail.com> >> írta: >> >> Hi to everyone! >> >> I'm a new member and I really appreciate the work done here! >> >> >> I'm trying to use Alcatel Femtocells (ALU 9361/9362/9363) with >> osmo-hnbgw, but I'm still blocked at the IPSEC tunnel step. >> >> I've created an IPSEC server with EAP support, but I suspect there is a >> problem with my self signed certificate. >> >> Probably the femtocell has an internal trusted CA which validates server >> certs. >> >> >> I din't find the console pins on the board also, so I cannot simply >> connect to it and have a look at the system level. >> >> >> Has anyone any experience with this kind of HW or just an idea about a >> possible work around? >> >> >> Thank you and best regards >> Alex >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/openbsc/attachments/20181127/67ed9015/attachment.htm>