11 Mar
2020
11 Mar
'20
12:15 a.m.
Hello all and @Sukchan Lee <acetcom(a)gmail.com>om>,
I was thinking about one way to generate traffic accounting from the LTE
users of the Open5GS.
I'm rearching something using the iptables (in Linux), in this link we can
check a way to generate some traffic account in the linux:
https://catonmat.net/traffic-accounting-with-iptables
I'm thinking about writing a code, where the PGW adds a new line in
iptables with the IP/IPv6 address (TRAFFIC_ACCT_IN and TRAFFIC_ACCT_OUT)
when a new session is added and remove the same line when the session is
ended, with this the counter will restart, being able to use an external
program to get this information about the traffic sent and received by a
given user.
The bad from this idea is that this code only will work correctly in a
Linux box.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks
Romeu Medeiros
11 Mar
11 Mar
12:56 a.m.
New subject: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Freediameter should be able to provide accounting so long as the ENB supports it.
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From: nextepc <nextepc-bounces(a)lists.osmocom.org> On Behalf Of Romeu Medeiros
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:15 PM
To: nextepc(a)lists.osmocom.org
Subject: Fwd: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Hello all and @Sukchan Lee <mailto:acetcom@gmail.com> ,
I was thinking about one way to generate traffic accounting from the LTE users of the
Open5GS.
I'm rearching something using the iptables (in Linux), in this link we can check a way
to generate some traffic account in the linux:
https://catonmat.net/traffic-accounting-with-iptables
<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fcatonmat.net%2ftraffic-accounting-with-iptables&c=E,1,ZKxJjlnvr8VrquW5xsLsd-4VFJTXkRqUpJMEXfM2Scd6cIgGCuhBauaqsmY5YZMdj99b315zy-6g83E2G2y8uCV6ixKelMseXuH94Vnai_vaevVOCijMbuor&typo=1>
I'm thinking about writing a code, where the PGW adds a new line in iptables with the
IP/IPv6 address (TRAFFIC_ACCT_IN and TRAFFIC_ACCT_OUT) when a new session is added and
remove the same line when the session is ended, with this the counter will restart, being
able to use an external program to get this information about the traffic sent and
received by a given user.
The bad from this idea is that this code only will work correctly in a Linux box.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks
Romeu Medeiros
4:53 p.m.
New subject: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Hi David,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 07:56:06PM -0400, david(a)ispsupplies.com wrote:
Freediameter should be able to provide accounting so
long as the ENB supports it.
in which way is the eNB involved in traffic accounting in LTE?
Normally, AFAICT, accounting is implemented within the P-GW, potentially
interacting via Radios/Diameter or some other protocol with some
external entity that decides whether or not there is credit/budget
remaining or not. If not, the PGW would stop firwarding packets of the
related session/subscriber.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
============================================================================
"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
5:26 p.m.
New subject: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Sorry yeah I meant the EPC. I am not sure if the Open5GS software supports
it but Freediameter would be the Accounting portion in AAA from what I can
tell.
David Peterson
Senior Engineer
855-947-7776 ext. 9214
c 419-706-7355
d 979-314-1305
https://www.ispsupplies.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:53 AM
To: david(a)ispsupplies.com
Cc: 'Romeu Medeiros' <medeiros(a)medeiros.eng.br>br>; nextepc(a)lists.osmocom.org
Subject: Re: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Hi David,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 07:56:06PM -0400, david(a)ispsupplies.com wrote:
Freediameter should be able to provide accounting so
long as the ENB
supports it.
in which way is the eNB involved in traffic accounting in LTE?
Normally, AFAICT, accounting is implemented within the P-GW, potentially
interacting via Radios/Diameter or some other protocol with some external
entity that decides whether or not there is credit/budget remaining or not.
If not, the PGW would stop firwarding packets of the related
session/subscriber.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2flaforge.gnumonks.org%2f&…
=E,1,yb6SFWcoxXKtp0qClHpv4V936cQS_cFUx9dFgqORnwJ6yRCOhax7GulxJjjPLVsGkCe2ioB
ew6hlBJnFYR1mBgD0-WojRnKxjbM4dQK9xQ,,&typo=1
============================================================================
"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
5:39 p.m.
New subject: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
+1 to Harald. Doing traffic accounting at the PGW and then reporting these statistics over
Diameter is probably the most architecturally correct way to do this. I'm definitely a
fan of using IPTables for this kind of stuff, since it’s all just packets anyways.
For our networks, we wrote a completely separate tool called haulage
(https://github.com/uw-ictd/haulage) that uses IPTables and does something very similar.
Basically logs packets that are forwarded from the virtual interface, draws them down
against a user’s prepaid quota, and cuts them off when they hit zero. We wrote this as a
separate app (in go) mainly to keep things simpler and let us move faster.
Spencer
On Mar 11, 2020, at 09:26,
<david(a)ispsupplies.com> <david(a)ispsupplies.com> wrote:
Sorry yeah I meant the EPC. I am not sure if the Open5GS software supports
it but Freediameter would be the Accounting portion in AAA from what I can
tell.
David Peterson
Senior Engineer
855-947-7776 ext. 9214
c 419-706-7355
d 979-314-1305
https://www.ispsupplies.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:53 AM
To: david(a)ispsupplies.com
Cc: 'Romeu Medeiros' <medeiros(a)medeiros.eng.br>br>; nextepc(a)lists.osmocom.org
Subject: Re: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Hi David,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 07:56:06PM -0400, david(a)ispsupplies.com wrote:
Freediameter should be able to provide accounting
so long as the ENB
supports it.
in which way is the eNB involved in traffic accounting in LTE?
Normally, AFAICT, accounting is implemented within the P-GW, potentially
interacting via Radios/Diameter or some other protocol with some external
entity that decides whether or not there is credit/budget remaining or not.
If not, the PGW would stop firwarding packets of the related
session/subscriber.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2flaforge.gnumonks.org%2f&…
=E,1,yb6SFWcoxXKtp0qClHpv4V936cQS_cFUx9dFgqORnwJ6yRCOhax7GulxJjjPLVsGkCe2ioB
ew6hlBJnFYR1mBgD0-WojRnKxjbM4dQK9xQ,,&typo=1
============================================================================
"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
6:05 p.m.
New subject: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Hello Spencer, Harald and all.
I really appreciated all infos, this saves me a lot of time!
Spencer, I'm seeing your tool, I think that is exactly like I need. My
environment is small (10 endbs).
I will try to use your tool here, In our github page you inform that the
code is migrating to open5gs. It's working with the open5gs?
Thanks
Romeu Medeiros
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:39 PM Spencer Sevilla <sevilla(a)cs.washington.edu>
wrote:
+1 to Harald. Doing traffic accounting at the PGW and
then reporting these
statistics over Diameter is probably the most architecturally correct way
to do this. I'm definitely a fan of using IPTables for this kind of stuff,
since it’s all just packets anyways.
For our networks, we wrote a completely separate tool called haulage (
https://github.com/uw-ictd/haulage) that uses IPTables and does something
very similar. Basically logs packets that are forwarded from the virtual
interface, draws them down against a user’s prepaid quota, and cuts them
off when they hit zero. We wrote this as a separate app (in go) mainly to
keep things simpler and let us move faster.
Spencer
=E,1,yb6SFWcoxXKtp0qClHpv4V936cQS_cFUx9dFgqORnwJ6yRCOhax7GulxJjjPLVsGkCe2ioB
> ew6hlBJnFYR1mBgD0-WojRnKxjbM4dQK9xQ,,&typo=1
============================================================================
On Mar 11, 2020, at 09:26,
<david(a)ispsupplies.com> <
david(a)ispsupplies.com> wrote:
Sorry yeah I meant the EPC. I am not sure if the Open5GS software
supports
it but Freediameter would be the Accounting
portion in AAA from what I
can
tell.
David Peterson
Senior Engineer
855-947-7776 ext. 9214
c 419-706-7355
d 979-314-1305
https://www.ispsupplies.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:53 AM
To: david(a)ispsupplies.com
Cc: 'Romeu Medeiros' <medeiros(a)medeiros.eng.br>br>;
nextepc(a)lists.osmocom.org
Subject: Re: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Hi David,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 07:56:06PM -0400, david(a)ispsupplies.com wrote:
not.
Freediameter should be able to provide accounting
so long as the ENB
supports it.
in which way is the eNB involved in traffic accounting in LTE?
Normally, AFAICT, accounting is implemented within the P-GW, potentially
interacting via Radios/Diameter or some other protocol with some external
entity that decides whether or not there is credit/budget remaining or If not, the PGW would stop firwarding packets of
the related
session/subscriber.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2flaforge.gnumonks.org%2f&…
"Privacy in residential applications is a
desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch.
A6)
6:22 p.m.
New subject: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Our migration is *almost* done. We had to rewrite a lot of database code because we used
to integrate with OAI, but now have moved our systems over to open5gs. I’ll respond back
to this thread once we’ve finally migrated everything (should be by the end of the week).
On Mar 11, 2020, at 10:05, Romeu Medeiros
<medeiros(a)medeiros.eng.br> wrote:
Hello Spencer, Harald and all.
I really appreciated all infos, this saves me a lot of time!
Spencer, I'm seeing your tool, I think that is exactly like I need. My environment is
small (10 endbs).
I will try to use your tool here, In our github page you inform that the code is
migrating to open5gs. It's working with the open5gs?
Thanks
Romeu Medeiros
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:39 PM Spencer Sevilla <sevilla(a)cs.washington.edu
<mailto:sevilla@cs.washington.edu>> wrote:
+1 to Harald. Doing traffic accounting at the PGW and then reporting these statistics
over Diameter is probably the most architecturally correct way to do this. I'm
definitely a fan of using IPTables for this kind of stuff, since it’s all just packets
anyways.
For our networks, we wrote a completely separate tool called haulage
(https://github.com/uw-ictd/haulage <https://github.com/uw-ictd/haulage>) that uses
IPTables and does something very similar. Basically logs packets that are forwarded from
the virtual interface, draws them down against a user’s prepaid quota, and cuts them off
when they hit zero. We wrote this as a separate app (in go) mainly to keep things simpler
and let us move faster.
Spencer
On Mar 11, 2020, at 09:26,
<david(a)ispsupplies.com <mailto:david@ispsupplies.com>>
<david(a)ispsupplies.com <mailto:david@ispsupplies.com>> wrote:
Sorry yeah I meant the EPC. I am not sure if the Open5GS software supports
it but Freediameter would be the Accounting portion in AAA from what I can
tell.
David Peterson
Senior Engineer
855-947-7776 ext. 9214
c 419-706-7355
d 979-314-1305
https://www.ispsupplies.com <https://www.ispsupplies.com/>
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org <mailto:laforge@osmocom.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:53 AM
To: david(a)ispsupplies.com <mailto:david@ispsupplies.com>
Cc: 'Romeu Medeiros' <medeiros(a)medeiros.eng.br
<mailto:medeiros@medeiros.eng.br>>; nextepc(a)lists.osmocom.org
<mailto:nextepc@lists.osmocom.org>
Subject: Re: Open5GS Traffic Accounting
Hi David,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 07:56:06PM -0400, david(a)ispsupplies.com
<mailto:david@ispsupplies.com> wrote:
Freediameter should be able to provide accounting
so long as the ENB
supports it.
in which way is the eNB involved in traffic accounting in LTE?
Normally, AFAICT, accounting is implemented within the P-GW, potentially
interacting via Radios/Diameter or some other protocol with some external
entity that decides whether or not there is credit/budget remaining or not.
If not, the PGW would stop firwarding packets of the related
session/subscriber.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org <mailto:laforge@osmocom.org>>
https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2flaforge.gnumonks.org%2f&…
<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2flaforge.gnumonks.org%2f&c>
=E,1,yb6SFWcoxXKtp0qClHpv4V936cQS_cFUx9dFgqORnwJ6yRCOhax7GulxJjjPLVsGkCe2ioB
ew6hlBJnFYR1mBgD0-WojRnKxjbM4dQK9xQ,,&typo=1
============================================================================
"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
5 p.m.
Dear Romeo,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:15:01PM -0300, Romeu Medeiros wrote:
I was thinking about one way to generate traffic
accounting from the LTE
users of the Open5GS.
great!
I'm rearching something using the iptables (in
Linux),
Please don't. iptables is mroe than 20 years old by now, and for any
new development you should consider using nftables. It is much more powerful,
efficient nad also (contrary to iptables) has nice library API by which rules
can be installed from programs without fork+exec of an "iptables" binary with
command line arguments.
In Debian 10 (and presumably other distributions) nftables is alredy the default.
Based on the fact that there's an iptables compatibility layer on top, you may
not even know that.
The fundamental question is whether or not you want to do this in the external
packet filter of the OS or inside the PGW itself. I would argue for the latter,
because:
The bad from this idea is that this code only will
work correctly in a
Linux box.
that, and also because the open5gs PGW already contains a (stripped
down) BSD firewall code base if you want to do filtering or the like.
In general, the question is what kind of throughput in terms of
bandwidth and pps you are looking for. Implementing GTP-U encap/decap,
accounting, filtering etc. inside a userspace process behind RAW sockets
and a tun device is not going to scale very far. For a single-eNB lab
setup: Fine. But do you need accounting there?
For anything bigger, I would consider looking at other P-GW
implementations out there, such as ergw or the OMEC implementation.
They both do CUPS (control / user plane split) and have DPDK and/or VPP
accelerated user plane implementations. Given they talk standard GTP,
you should be able to inter-operate them with open5gs.
Regards,
Harald
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
============================================================================
"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
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