January 2016 - OpenBSC - lists.osmocom.org

GPRS - local and foreign TLLIs
by Luca Melette 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Hello everybody, after setting up a nanoBTS with OpenBSC/SGSN/GGSN, I had some troubles trying to connect my smartphone to the GPRS cell. Investigating the BTS-to-SGSN traffic, I saw that the frames sent by the SGSN were all marked with the same N(U) value (at LLC layer), the value was 0. With some debug, I found that the there was a mismatch in the TLLI storage, used to keep the status of attached terminals. The mentioned code is contained in gprs_llc.c, involving LL Entity functions and gprs_llc_tx_ui(). /* look-up or create the LL Entity for this (TLLI, SAPI) tuple */ lle = lle_by_tlli_sapi(msgb_tlli(msg), sapi); if (!lle) { struct gprs_llc_llme *llme; LOGP(DLLC, LOGL_ERROR, "LLC TX: unknown TLLI 0x%08x, " "creating LLME on the fly\n", msgb_tlli(msg)); llme = llme_alloc(msgb_tlli(msg)); lle = &llme->lle[sapi]; } The TX function uses the previously received TLLI to lookup for the LLE. The lle_by_tlli_sapi() performs the search, but preliminary it applies a foreign2local TLLI conversion to ensure to have a local one. Since no valid entry for the searched TLLI is found, a new one is created. And the problem is here. The new entry has the foreign TLLI. Next time the lookup fails again, and a new entry is created. This way, the counter N(U) is always reset, and the mobile do not recognize the message sequence and no attach is possible. My question is about foreign and local TLLIs. I patched the lookup, avoiding the conversion, so that the LLE is found and everything works fine... but... What is the sense of the conversion? Should the TLLI be always stored as a local one? Can this problem be solved with another foreign2local while allocating new entries? Actually, my problem has been solved with that workaround. But I'm curious to know what is the right way. Hope somebody can answer :) Thanks. Cheers, LM

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Pysim error: SW match failed
by Martin Nagy 16 Aug '25

16 Aug '25

Hi all, After buying a super Sim Kit (16 in 1) from China, I tried the reader (green PCB inside a blue transparent plastic case with a blue LED) and SIM (identified as a fakesupersim) with pysim tool. However i am getting the following error: /pySim-prog.py -n 26C3 -c 49 -x 262 -y 42 -z 1234 -j 1 -t auto Insert card now (or CTRL-C to cancel) Autodetected card type fakemagicsim Generated card parameters : > Name : 26C3 > SMSP : e1ffffffffffffffffffffffff058100945555ffffffffffff000000 > ICCID : 8949262427518313026 > MCC/MNC : 262/42 > IMSI : 262422461512085 > Ki : 7b74741a1ee14337ec23f9ab92a13648 > OPC : ccd867d60797d8d45354a51b3ef568ff Programming ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "./pySim-prog.py", line 530, in <module> card.program(cp) File "/home/nadicek/pysim/pysim/pySim/cards.py", line 231, in program self._scc.update_binary('6f30', hplmn + 'ff' * (tl-3)) File "/home/nadicek/pysim/pysim/pySim/commands.py", line 53, in update_binary return self._tp.send_apdu_checksw(pdu) File "/home/nadicek/pysim/pysim/pySim/transport/__init__.py", line 87, in send_apdu_checksw raise RuntimeError("SW match failed ! Expected %s and got %s." % (sw.lower(), rv[1])) RuntimeError: SW match failed ! Expected 9000 and got 9804. I checked mailing lists and haven’t found anybody who had similar problem with pysim. Also I have tried forcing different models of SIM, but nothing is working. Obviously I can remove this check from the script file (__init__.py in /pySim/transport), however somebody had a reason to put such condition there. I would like to ask if it is safe to remove that line of code and the purpose of that line of code. Thanks a lot and best regards Martin

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Re: Help with sccp library
by mosbah abdelkader 07 Jul '25

07 Jul '25

> I don't understand. This callback will be called with data you need to write > to the network. In case of MTP Level3 you will need to wrap that around the > msgb you got. I means: is the interaction with mtp3 layer implemented (is sending sccp data by mtp3 implemented by the library?)? Also, what about the reception of data from mtp3 layer. is that implemented in the sccp lib. I am asking these questions because I see the code of mtp3 in the lib but no significant call is present in the sccp part of the lib. Thank you for your help.

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Half sided calls
by Sipos Csaba 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Dear List, I am in the process of creating the Wiki page for Ettus B200/B210 with OpenBSC, GPRS and Asterisk. I am quite close, both data and calls are working, but the voice calls are half sided. The downlink direction works, but the uplink does not. I tried without Asterisk and LCR (between two phones) and still the calls are half sided. In the mean time I got these messages in the Osmo-BTS log: <0006> scheduler.c:276 PH-DATA.req: chan_nr=0x0a link_id=0x00 fn=1284768 ts=2 tr x=0 <0006> scheduler.c:1036 TCH/F has not been served !! No prim for trx=0 ts=1 at f n=1284764 to transmit. <0006> scheduler.c:1036 TCH/F has not been served !! No prim for trx=0 ts=2 at f n=1284764 to transmit. <0006> scheduler.c:379 TCH RTS.ind: chan=TCH/F chan_nr=0x09 fn=1284772 ts=1 trx= 0 <0006> scheduler.c:276 PH-DATA.req: chan_nr=0x09 link_id=0x00 fn=1284772 ts=1 tr x=0 <0006> scheduler.c:379 TCH RTS.ind: chan=TCH/F chan_nr=0x0a fn=1284772 ts=2 trx= 0 <0006> scheduler.c:276 PH-DATA.req: chan_nr=0x0a link_id=0x00 fn=1284772 ts=2 tr x=0 <0006> scheduler.c:1036 TCH/F has not been served !! No prim for trx=0 ts=1 at f n=1284768 to transmit. <0006> scheduler.c:1036 TCH/F has not been served !! No prim for trx=0 ts=2 at f n=1284768 to transmit. SMS and GPRS seems to be fine. If someone have any idea, I would love to hear it. :-) Thanks! Csaba

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[PATCH 0/4] core/conv: Fast Viterbi decoding
by Thomas Tsou 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Hi all, This patch set adds to libosmocore an optimized Viterbi decodeer for architecture specific (Intel SSE) and non-specific cases. The implementation covers codes with constraint lengths of K=5 and K=7 and rates 1/4 to 3/4, which make up the majority of GSM use cases. Speedup from the current implementation is in the range of 5 to 20 depending on the processor and code type. API is unchanged. Tested on Haswell (i7-4770K) and Atom (D2550). Additional test codes from osmo-bts are included. Further tests for AWGN bit-error-rate and benchmarks can be found in the following repository. https://github.com/ttsou/osmo-conv-test Here are some examples. Bit error test for GPRS CS2 with SNR of 5 dB and 100000 bursts. $ ./conv_test -c 2 -e -r 5 -i 100000 ================================================= [+] Testing: GPRS CS2 [.] Specs: (N=2, K=5, non-recursive, flushed, not punctured) [.] Input length : ret = 290 exp = 290 -> OK [.] Output length : ret = 588 exp = 588 -> OK [.] BER tests: [..] Testing base: [..] Input BER.......................... 0.042443 [..] Output BER......................... 0.000006 [..] Output FER......................... 0.001350 (135) [..] Testing SIMD: [..] Input BER.......................... 0.042460 [..] Output BER......................... 0.000005 [..] Output FER......................... 0.001240 (124) Timed AFS benchmark with 8 threads and 100000 bursts per thread. $ ./conv_test -b -c 10 -j 8 -i 100000 ================================================= [+] Testing: GSM TCH/AFS 6.7 [.] Specs: (N=4, K=5, recursive, flushed, punctured) [.] Input length : ret = 140 exp = 140 -> OK [.] Output length : ret = 448 exp = 448 -> OK [.] Performance benchmark: [..] Encoding / Decoding 800000 bursts on 8 thread(s): [..] Testing base: [..] Elapsed time....................... 4.320001 secs [..] Rate............................... 25.925920 Mbps [..] Testing SIMD: [..] Elapsed time....................... 0.458272 secs [..] Rate............................... 244.396341 Mbps [..] Speedup............................ 9.426718 -TT

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[PATCH 1/2] utils: 'meas_json' utility to convert measurement feed into a JSON feed.
by Alexander Chemeris 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

--- openbsc/src/utils/Makefile.am | 6 +- openbsc/src/utils/meas_json.c | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 openbsc/src/utils/meas_json.c diff --git a/openbsc/src/utils/Makefile.am b/openbsc/src/utils/Makefile.am index f6255a0..89f2dfb 100644 --- a/openbsc/src/utils/Makefile.am +++ b/openbsc/src/utils/Makefile.am @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ AM_LDFLAGS = $(COVERAGE_LDFLAGS) noinst_HEADERS = meas_db.h -bin_PROGRAMS = bs11_config isdnsync +bin_PROGRAMS = bs11_config isdnsync meas_json if HAVE_SQLITE3 bin_PROGRAMS += osmo-meas-pcap2db osmo-meas-udp2db endif @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ meas_vis_SOURCES = meas_vis.c meas_vis_LDADD = $(LIBOSMOCORE_LIBS) $(LIBOSMOGSM_LIBS) -lcdk -lncurses meas_vis_CFLAGS = $(LIBOSMOCORE_CFLAGS) $(LIBOSMOGSM_CFLAGS) +meas_json_SOURCES = meas_json.c +meas_json_LDADD = $(LIBOSMOCORE_LIBS) $(LIBOSMOGSM_LIBS) +meas_json_CFLAGS = $(LIBOSMOCORE_CFLAGS) $(LIBOSMOGSM_CFLAGS) + osmo_meas_pcap2db_SOURCES = meas_pcap2db.c meas_db.c osmo_meas_pcap2db_LDADD = $(LIBOSMOCORE_LIBS) $(LIBOSMOGSM_LIBS) -lpcap $(SQLITE3_LIBS) osmo_meas_pcap2db_CFLAGS = $(LIBOSMOCORE_CFLAGS) $(LIBOSMOGSM_CFLAGS) diff --git a/openbsc/src/utils/meas_json.c b/openbsc/src/utils/meas_json.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..940e5e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/openbsc/src/utils/meas_json.c @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +/* Convert measurement report feed into JSON feed printed to stdout. + * Each measurement report is printed as a separae JSON root entry. + * All measurement reports are separated by a new line. + */ + +/* (C) 2015 by Alexander Chemeris <Alexander.Chemeris(a)fairwaves.co> + * With parts of code adopted from different places in OpenBSC. + * + * All Rights Reserved + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or + * (at your option) any later version. + * + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + * GNU Affero General Public License for more details. + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License + * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + * + */ +#include <string.h> +#include <errno.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <stdio.h> + +#include <netinet/in.h> + +#include <osmocom/core/socket.h> +#include <osmocom/core/msgb.h> +#include <osmocom/core/select.h> + +#include <osmocom/gsm/gsm_utils.h> + +#include <openbsc/meas_feed.h> + +static void print_meas_rep_uni_json(struct gsm_meas_rep_unidir *mru) +{ + printf("\"RXL-FULL\":%d, \"RXL-SUB\":%d, ", + rxlev2dbm(mru->full.rx_lev), + rxlev2dbm(mru->sub.rx_lev)); + printf("\"RXQ-FULL\":%d, \"RXQ-SUB\":%d", + mru->full.rx_qual, mru->sub.rx_qual); +} + +static void print_meas_rep_json(struct gsm_meas_rep *mr) +{ + int i; + + printf("\"NR\":%d", mr->nr); + + if (mr->flags & MEAS_REP_F_DL_DTX) + printf(", \"DTXd\":true"); + + printf(", \"UL_MEAS\":{"); + print_meas_rep_uni_json(&mr->ul); + printf("}"); + printf(", \"BS_POWER\":%d", mr->bs_power); + if (mr->flags & MEAS_REP_F_MS_TO) + printf(", \"MS_TO\":%d", mr->ms_timing_offset); + + if (mr->flags & MEAS_REP_F_MS_L1) { + printf(", \"L1_MS_PWR\":%d", mr->ms_l1.pwr); + printf(", \"L1_FPC\":%s", + mr->flags & MEAS_REP_F_FPC ? "true" : "false"); + printf(", \"L1_TA\":%u", mr->ms_l1.ta); + } + + if (mr->flags & MEAS_REP_F_UL_DTX) + printf(", \"DTXu\":true"); + if (mr->flags & MEAS_REP_F_BA1) + printf(", \"BA1\":true"); + if (mr->flags & MEAS_REP_F_DL_VALID) { + printf(", \"DL_MEAS\":{"); + print_meas_rep_uni_json(&mr->dl); + printf("}"); + } + + if (mr->num_cell == 7) + return; + printf(", \"NUM_NEIGH\":%u, \"NEIGH\":[", mr->num_cell); + for (i = 0; i < mr->num_cell; i++) { + struct gsm_meas_rep_cell *mrc = &mr->cell[i]; + if (i!=0) printf(", "); + printf("\"IDX\":%u, \"ARFCN\":%u, \"BSIC\":%u, \"POWER\":%d", + mrc->neigh_idx, mrc->arfcn, mrc->bsic, rxlev2dbm(mrc->rxlev)); + } + printf("]"); +} + +static void print_meas_feed_json(struct meas_feed_meas *mfm) +{ + time_t now = time(NULL); + + printf("{"); + printf("\"time\":%ld, \"imsi\":\"%s\", \"name\":\"%s\", \"scenario\":\"%s\", ", + now, mfm->imsi, mfm->name, mfm->scenario); + + printf("\"meas_rep\":{"); + print_meas_rep_json(&mfm->mr); + printf("}"); + + printf("}\n"); + +} + +static int handle_meas(struct msgb *msg) +{ + struct meas_feed_meas *mfm = (struct meas_feed_meas *) msgb_data(msg); + + print_meas_feed_json(mfm); + + return 0; +} + +static int handle_msg(struct msgb *msg) +{ + struct meas_feed_hdr *mfh = (struct meas_feed_hdr *) msgb_data(msg); + + if (mfh->version != MEAS_FEED_VERSION) + return -EINVAL; + + switch (mfh->msg_type) { + case MEAS_FEED_MEAS: + handle_meas(msg); + break; + default: + break; + } +} + +static int udp_fd_cb(struct osmo_fd *ofd, unsigned int what) +{ + int rc; + + if (what & BSC_FD_READ) { + struct msgb *msg = msgb_alloc(1024, "UDP Rx"); + + rc = read(ofd->fd, msgb_data(msg), msgb_tailroom(msg)); + if (rc < 0) + return rc; + msgb_put(msg, rc); + handle_msg(msg); + msgb_free(msg); + } + + return 0; +} + +int main(int argc, char **argv) +{ + int rc; + struct osmo_fd udp_ofd; + + udp_ofd.cb = udp_fd_cb; + rc = osmo_sock_init_ofd(&udp_ofd, AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP, NULL, 8888, OSMO_SOCK_F_BIND); + if (rc < 0) + exit(1); + + while (1) { + osmo_select_main(0); + }; + + exit(0); +} -- 1.9.1

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OsmoDevCon 2016 date poll
by Harald Welte 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

Dear all, IN-Berlin has confirmed the dates in April where we could book the venue. Can those eligible + interested in attending please quickly indicate their preference at http://doodle.com/poll/if263cpxieavsqiq ? Thanks! Disclaimer: OsmoDevCon is an invitation-only event for developers with proven history of contributing to any of the Osmocom projects. The fact that there is a public poll about the scheduling of the event and/or your participation in that poll does not mean a particular applicant is invited. Regards, Harald -- - Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."

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Smalltalk scalable SMSC project
by Holger Freyther 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Hi all, new year, new approaches. In December I was tasked to think about a real SMSC with SMPP input and SS7 output (or SMPP in the future) and I wrote down my ideas[1] about data storage, approach, how to achieve scaling. What is missing fail-over but there are some ideas for this as well. The implementation will be done using Pharo and at least the first data storage will use mongodb >= 3.2. In the past my Pharo work has not been hosted in git but for this project it will change and maybe it creates some more visibility, historically documentation and debian packages were not too visible but that will be different this time as well. If you are interested in specification, Smalltalk, testing, load testing, SS7 or such please join me in the development. happy hacking holger [1] https://github.com/zecke/osmo-smsc/blob/master/README.asciidoc it will move to git.osmocom.org but I just wanted to have online asciidoc rendering.

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[PATCH 1/3] log: Add log_check_level function
by Jacob Erlbeck 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

This commit adds this predicate function which can be used to avoid the execution of code if a certain log level is not enabled. The function will only return 0 (false), if it is sure that a logging call for the same facility and level will not produce any output. This safety criterion shall ensure, that no logging output is lost due to the use of this predicate as a guard. On the other hand, even if the predicate returns != 0 (true), no logging output might get generated by a similar logging command. Note that the current implementation is not focussed on performance, which could be improved by using a lookup table instead of iterating through every target. Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf --- include/osmocom/core/logging.h | 1 + src/logging.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/osmocom/core/logging.h b/include/osmocom/core/logging.h index 1c159d0..290b33d 100644 --- a/include/osmocom/core/logging.h +++ b/include/osmocom/core/logging.h @@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ void logp2(int subsys, unsigned int level, const char *file, int line, int cont, const char *format, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 6, 7))); int log_init(const struct log_info *inf, void *talloc_ctx); +int log_check_level(int subsys, unsigned int level); /* context management */ void log_reset_context(void); diff --git a/src/logging.c b/src/logging.c index 876964a..c7b1999 100644 --- a/src/logging.c +++ b/src/logging.c @@ -865,4 +865,43 @@ int log_init(const struct log_info *inf, void *ctx) return 0; } +/*! \brief Check whether a log entry will be generated. + * \returns != 0 if a log entry might get generated by at least one target */ +int log_check_level(int subsys, unsigned int level) +{ + struct log_target *tar; + + if (subsys < 0) + subsys = subsys_lib2index(subsys); + + if (subsys > osmo_log_info->num_cat) + subsys = DLGLOBAL; + + /* TODO: The following could/should be cached (update on config) */ + + llist_for_each_entry(tar, &osmo_log_target_list, entry) { + struct log_category *category; + + category = &tar->categories[subsys]; + /* subsystem is not supposed to be logged */ + if (!category->enabled) + continue; + + /* Check the global log level */ + if (tar->loglevel != 0 && level < tar->loglevel) + continue; + + /* Check the category log level */ + if (tar->loglevel == 0 && category->loglevel != 0 && + level < category->loglevel) + continue; + + /* This might get logged (ignoring filters) */ + return 1; + } + + /* We are sure, that this will not be logged. */ + return 0; +} + /*! @} */ -- 1.9.1

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FIXME: TODO: do better
by Neels Hofmeyr 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Would anyone like to prevent this commit from reaching master? ;) Thanks! ~Neels commit 76af8ad075e7857983ef102f80440ee716958482 Author: Neels Hofmeyr <nhofmeyr(a)sysmocom.de> Date: Thu Jan 28 14:26:05 2016 +0100 add fixme comment for todo comment :/ diff --git a/openbsc/src/libmsc/osmo_msc.c b/openbsc/src/libmsc/osmo_msc.c index b4facff..4bea699 100644 --- a/openbsc/src/libmsc/osmo_msc.c +++ b/openbsc/src/libmsc/osmo_msc.c @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static int msc_compl_l3(struct gsm_subscriber_connection *conn, struct msgb *msg gsm0408_new_conn(conn); gsm0408_dispatch(conn, msg); - /* TODO: do better */ + /* TODO: do better */ /* FIXME: do the TODO comment better in the first place! */ if (conn->silent_call) return BSC_API_CONN_POL_ACCEPT; if (conn->loc_operation || conn->sec_operation || conn->anch_operation) -- - Neels Hofmeyr <nhofmeyr(a)sysmocom.de> http://www.sysmocom.de/ ======================================================================= * sysmocom - systems for mobile communications GmbH * Alt-Moabit 93 * 10559 Berlin, Germany * Sitz / Registered office: Berlin, HRB 134158 B * Geschäftsführer / Managing Directors: Holger Freyther, Harald Welte

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