New subject: AW: TODO: OsmocomBB to continually iterate over all cells and dump SI

23 Dec 2010

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  Just to avoid any duplicate of work as well: most of
this is already 
 done by cell_log (layer23/src/misc). It iterates over the whole spectrum 
...
  and tries to get an Immediate Assignment by sending a
RACH to every cell.
...
  It stores SI1-4, GPS position and the TA in a logfile,
and using the 
 gsmmap utility you can create a *.kml map of the calculated cell 
 positions for Google Earth. 
...
  So what's missing is really only the PCAP support
and a command line 
 switch to turn off the "active" scanning by sending no RACHs. 
hi steve,

exactly. almost everything is already there. there are some things that
may need to be improved in my opinion:

- deactivating/activating the RACH request
- altering maximum distance (gps) moving off the position of last power
scan, before restarting scanning process.
- multiple radio support for faster scanning and deeper scanning while
moving.
- selecting between the generic text format and PCAP.
- option to wait some more time to receive more system informations than
the mandatory 1..4

regards,

andreas