OpenBSC December 2023

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TCP port numbers for vty/ctrl/etc of 3rd-party programs
by Mychaela Falconia 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

Hello Osmocom community, I have a question about TCP port number assignment for programs using libosmovty. Every Osmo-official server program gets official port number assignments listed in the wiki, in PDF manuals etc - so far, so good. But what about non-Osmo-official 3rd-party programs that wish to use common Osmocom libraries, including the vty facility? Suppose that an operator of an Osmocom-based cellular network needs to develop some additional programs to satisfy some operational need, and some of these additional programs are long-lived server processes for which an Osmocom-style vty interface would be very useful. But implementing such a telnet vty i/f requires a TCP port number... Has anyone thought about designating an official range of TCP port numbers which would be recommended for vty/ctrl/etc ports of processes that use Osmocom libraries and extend Osmocom CNI in various ways, but aren't official Osmocom projects? M~

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OsmoDevCon 2024 planning
by Harald Welte 26 Dec '23

26 Dec '23

Hi all! [cross-post to make sure everyone knows about it, please follow-up-to the osmodevcon(a)lists.osmocom.org mailing list for further discussion] As I mentioned several times at different occasions, I really think we should put together a OsmoDevCon again. In case you don't know what that is, please see https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-dev-con/wiki/OsmoDevCon We should have restarted already in 2023, but I really was too busy and it was a somewhat difficult year for me at times, sorry. Date ---- In terms of timing, I am thinking about "after April but before the main summer holiday season (June-August)". That leaves May. Given that May has the whitsunday weekend as well as GPN (Gulaschprogrammiernacht, a CCC event that will likely conflict of interest with some people interested at attending OsmoDevCon), I'm currently considering the following candidate dates: * May 3 to 6 * May 24 to 27 This is as usual a friday-to-monday timeframe, allowing people who don't work professionally on osmocom to attend just the two weekendd days, while others can attend the full 4 days. Venue ----- In terms of venue, I'm hoping we can move to a slightly different arrangement where the whole group stays together for the whole duration of the event - as opposed to everyone staying at different hotels and having to commute from hotel to venue and back every day. So something like a hotel with a sufficiently large meeting room, hotels and catering all day. And all of that ideally at a nice venue with some kind of park / outdoor area, not downtown at the city center. Yes, that will obviously come at a higher price tag than we're used to - but I'm confident we can get that covered between sponsors and sysmocom. Do you guys think this is a good idea? Or would you prefer the traditional ad-hoc approach at IN-Berlin? Regards, Harald -- - Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> https://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)

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libosmo-mgcp-devel built in RPM but not in deb
by Neels Hofmeyr 23 Dec '23

23 Dec '23

Hi all, does anyone have feedback on this dubious libosmo-mgcp-devel we publish in our osmo-mgw.spec? More detail in https://osmocom.org/issues/6300 Thanks! ~N -- - 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: Harald Welte

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osmo-mgw: is anyone using the 'fmtp-extra' option?
by Neels Hofmeyr 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Hi all, I'd like to drop the 'sdp audio fmtp-extra ...' cfg option from osmo-mgw. If this option needs to stay, I'd like to hear about that. There is more context in https://osmocom.org/issues/6313 Thanks! ~N -- - 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: Harald Welte

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osmo-pcu, osmo-bts, osmo-bsc releases with PCUIF 12
by Oliver Smith 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear mailing list, I'm looking into releasing a new osmo-pcu version to finish up OS#6198, and to have a release with the fix for OS#6191. Apparently that fix requires a new PCUIF version. And osmo-pcu master now has a check that requires the *exact* PCUIF version: https://cgit.osmocom.org/osmo-pcu/commit/?id=46140948d9800bca6a7b4299f08b25… pcu_i1_if.cpp: } else if (info_ind->version != PCU_IF_VERSION) { fprintf(stderr, "PCU interface version number of BTS/BSC (%u) is different (%u).\nPlease use a BTS/BSC with a compatble interface!\n", info_ind->version, PCU_IF_VERSION); exit(-1); } So we will need to create releases of osmo-bts and osmo-bsc with the new PCUIF version as well. As this is a breaking change, I think we should bump the major version, and that in turn makes more sense with tagging current master instead of cherry picking a few patches. So I propose to do the following: * tag a new libosmocore patch release with the few patches required for osmo-pcu, osmo-bts and osmo-bsc master (see their TODO-RELEASE). * tag major releases of osmo-pcu, osmo-bts and osmo-bsc from their current master Does that make sense? Best regards, Oliver -- - Oliver Smith <osmith(a)sysmocom.de> https://www.sysmocom.de/ ======================================================================= * sysmocom - systems for mobile communications GmbH * Alt-Moabit 93 * 10559 Berlin, Germany * Sitz / Registered office: Berlin, HRB 134158 B * Geschaeftsfuehrer / Managing Director: Harald Welte

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AMR mode-set
by Neels Hofmeyr 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Hi Nick, I just read your post https://nickvsnetworking.com/tales-from-the-trenches-mode-set-in-amr/ and just when it really gets interesting, the article ends =) I'm working at osmocom.org and am currently figuring out how TH we are supposed to communicate the AMR mode sets across 2G + 3G mobile networking on the one side and SDP/SIP+RTP on the other side. My plan was to do it like choosing codecs: One side sends all its capabilities, the other responds with the own capabilites removing unsupported entries. Now I read in your post that mode-set is take-it-or-leave-it. The interesting part is the practical problem that arises from it: e.g. on a 2G mobile network, i'm allowed to choose up to four AMR rates, no more. When on a half-rate channel, then specific rates (12k2, 10k2) are not supported. Otherwise I can tell the 2G BTS and the phone to pick various mode-set combinations. So why not send a full mode-set of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and the other call leg can then say "i'll pick these four", or something like that. With your spec references, it means that now I need to pick specific mode-set combinations in advance, and assign a different payload type number to each of them. The extreme example would be: a rtpmap:110 AMR/8000/1 a fmtp:110 mode-set=0 a rtpmap:111 AMR/8000/1 a fmtp:111 mode-set=1 a rtpmap:112 AMR/8000/1 a fmtp:112 mode-set=2 ... a fmtp:117 mode-set=7 a fmtp:118 mode-set=0,1 a fmtp:119 mode-set=0,2 a fmtp:120 mode-set=0,3 a fmtp:121 mode-set=0,4 ... a fmtp:99999998 mode-set=0,1,2,3,4,5,6 a fmtp:99999999 mode-set=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Obviously nonsense, but you catch my drift. So what is the solution then? In 2G GSM I have half-rate and full-rate channels; AMR-FR and AMR-HR should be able to interop. So if one FR side offers mode-set=0,2,4,7 then the HR side may return mode-set=0,2,4 to leave only HR compatible rates. Well, no. If not that, then: I probably need to create one RTPMAP entry for full-rate compatible operation and another entry for half-rate compatible operation. 111:mode-set=0,2,4,7 112:mode-set=0,2,4 Also some hardware supports only 12k2, so then I need to add an extra entry for only 12k2. But I have to so not only on the side that has the 12k2 limit, but on the side that wants to interop with it! Because if the peer doesn't offer a single "mode-set=7", then the only-12k2 supporting side must reject the entire call. 111:mode-set=0,2,4,7 112:mode-set=0,2,4 113:mode-set=7 The question is, were the specs in good intentions, but in practicality it is mayhem of exploding nr of permutations, and maybe your MGW made a sane choice of not diving into this madness? Thanks for your feedback on this! ~N -- - 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: Harald Welte

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osmo-mgw: explicit fmtp vs. autodetection
by Neels Hofmeyr 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Hi all, I have a request for comments regarding osmo-mgw, particularly the fmtp for AMR octet-align mode and the two GSM-HR variants. We are currently reviewing/writing patches to allow flexible use of fmtp in libosmo-mgcp-client. The plan is to be able to indicate which GSM-HR variant (RFC5993 or 3GPP TS 101.318) is in use. Also we are fixing the ability to indicate AMR mode (octet-align=1 vs 0) properly, per payload type nr instead of once per SDP body. Example of MGCP with SDP, showing two codecs, AMR as 112 and GSM-HR as 111, each with a fmtp as I'm discussing now: CRCX 2 7@mgw MGCP 1.0 C: 2 v=0 c=IN IP4 123.12.12.123 m=audio 5904 RTP/AVP 112 111 a=rtpmap:112 AMR/8000/1 a=fmtp:112 octet-align=1 a=rtpmap:111 GSM-HR-08/8000/1 a=fmtp:111 gsm-hr-format=3gpp-ts-101.318 a=ptime:20 That means that each MGW client tells osmo-mgw exactly what AMR and HR formats to send to the RTP peer, and also restricts exactly which format to expect from that RTP peer. So BSC and MSC need to know things about BTS and BSS, in advance: - the BSC needs configured knowledge of each BTS's octet-align and gsm-hr-format. - the MSC needs configured knowledge of what the BSC will do. - what if there are divergent formats in different BTS of a BSS, does MSC need to know that too? There is certainly no way to indicate octet-align nor HR variant in standard A interface proto. So far so complex, BUT: In practical testing, I see from logging that osmo-mgw is already quite capable of detecting which AMR octet-align mode and which HR format is actually arriving from the RTP peer (from the BTS...). I see this log line: DRTP NOTICE (rtpbridge/1@bsc0 I:FA1F785D) rx_rtp(44 bytes): Expected RTP AMR octet-aligned=1 but got octet-aligned=0. check the config of your call-agent! (mgcp_network.c:1525) And I'm thinking, where is the problem, just do what you need to do; all the information it needs to do the right thing is already available to osmo-mgw. So why even the need to configure {AMR octet-align|GSM-HR mode} in SDP? Idea: - the first RTP packet arriving is examined, and from then on the peer is known to use that format. - when later, an RTP needs to be forwarded back to that peer, we convert to the format that the peer uses, iff it is necessary. - for sanity we could hold back forwarding RTP before the details of the recipient are known, i.e. wait for each peer to send the first RTP to MGW. Example for an RTP stream in GSM-HR format: A MGW B |--HR(3gpp)-->|--x drop | (don't know B's preference yet, cannot send) | [3gpp]| | (now know A uses the 3gpp format) | |<--HR(rfc)--| | |[rfc] | (now know B uses the RFC format) | [convert] | |<--HR(3gpp)--| | |--HR(3gpp)-->|--HR(rfc)-->| |<--HR(3gpp)--|<--HR(rfc)--| There is an important difference between AMR octet-align and GSM-HR: - 'octet-align=(0|1)' is a defined standard fmtp that already exists, and it may be necessary to forward this accurately to PBX. We may not get around having to explicitly set this. - GSM-HR format is a new fmtp we are inventing now. So the idea is most relevant here: if we can always just autodetect the right thing to do, then why introduce a non-standard fmtp? (plus all the MGW client vty cfg needed) What do you think? Thanks! ~N -- - 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: Harald Welte

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Binary packages: changes in supported distributions
by Oliver Smith 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Hello various Osmocom mailing lists, the official Osmocom binary packages will not be built anymore for the following distributions starting at 2024-02: * Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit (use Debian_12 etc. instead) * Ubuntu 23.04 (Ubuntu 23.10 and LTS 20.04/22.04 feeds are available) * openSUSE 15.4 (openSUSE Tumbleweed feed is available) * Debian Testing (Debian Unstable and 12-10 feeds are available) For Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit users, make sure to adjust your /etc/apt/sources.list.d as described here to switch to a Debian aarch64 feed: https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Latest_Builds See the new linux distributions article for information on how long we plan to keep building packages for each distribution: https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Linux_distributio… Let me know if you have questions. Best regards, Oliver -- - Oliver Smith <osmith(a)sysmocom.de> https://www.sysmocom.de/ ======================================================================= * sysmocom - systems for mobile communications GmbH * Alt-Moabit 93 * 10559 Berlin, Germany * Sitz / Registered office: Berlin, HRB 134158 B * Geschaeftsfuehrer / Managing Director: Harald Welte

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