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libosmocore licensing
by Alexander Chemeris 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi all, but especially Harald, We're looking for a good library with complex arithmetic, bit functions and other RF processing stuff to be used as a base for porting of our WiMAX stuff to C/C++. I'm looking at libosmocore as a perfect candidate for that, but we're going to release our work under LGPL and thus we want an LGPL base library. I wonder, is it possible to re-license libosmocore under LGPL instead of GPL? I know that Sylvain has no strong objections about that. Harald, Holger and other contributors - what would you say? In general, I believe that LGPL is much better suited for libraries then GPL and many widely used libraries, like ffmpeg, use it with great success. And I wish libosmocore to be as successful as those LGPL libraries. PS Our WiMAX effort is to create an open-source receiver for Mobile WiMAX: http://code.google.com/p/wimax-scanner/ We have written somewhat working Matlab code and we're going to port it to something more real-time now. -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris.

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libosmocore lapd_rx_u and unitialized rc
by Holger Hans Peter Freyther 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Hi all, in the above method there are paths were rc will never be initialized. I think initializing rc = 0 or -EINVAL would be cheating, instead we should consider splitting it into manageable pieces. holger

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[PATCH 0/1] [v2] openbsc (master): libctrl: bugfix to prevent a SIGABRT
by Alexander Huemer 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

In case the control interface on TCP port 4249 is used in an unintended way, a SIGABRT can be caused because of a missing initialization of a msgb*. The upcoming patch fixes this bug. If the patch seems useful, please feel free to merge it. Kind regards, -Alexander Huemer Alexander Huemer(1): libctrl: only free() msgb if it was alloc()ed openbsc/src/libctrl/control_if.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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[PATCH 0/1] openbsc (master): libctrl: bugfix to prevent a SIGABRT
by Alexander Huemer 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

In case the control interface on TCP port 4249 is used in an unintended way, a SIGABRT can be caused because of a double talloc_free() call on a msgb*. The upcoming patch fixes this bug. If the patch seems useful, please feel free to merge it. Kind regards, -Alexander Huemer Alexander Huemer(1): libctrl: only free() msgb if it was alloc()ed openbsc/src/libctrl/control_if.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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Re: Mandatory info element invalid
by anish achenkunju 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Hi All, Finally I got the setup up and running using Openggsn 0.84, seems like there is a bug in version 0.91 which was causing the earlier reported issue. I've sgsnemu sending packets to Cisco 7200 gprs code emulated on dynmips now which inturn is configured to authenticate via FreeRadius. Everything works now, i'm able to get sgnsemu send packets with username password for the apn to get it authenticated via AAA. My next challenge are: 1. To get sgsnemu read configuration file. Can anyone help me with a sample to do this, would like to see a configuration file where i can have multiple packets with different apn, qos ,imsi being sent out with having to manually type via cli. At this point , i see that there is a limitation of binding only one sgsnemu instance to local interface, is there a way to have multiple instances running? 2. Also would want to setup charging gateway if possible, i couldnt find a live download link to open charging gateway . Would greatly appreciate any inputs on the same. Thank you, Anish ________________________________ From: anish achenkunju <anish_achenkunju(a)yahoo.com> To: "openbsc(a)lists.osmocom.org" <openbsc(a)lists.osmocom.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:57 PM Subject: Fw: Mandatory info element invalid Dear All, I'm using sgsnemu of openggsn 0.91 to send traffic to Cisco 7200 GGSN code running on dynamips. [root@localhost ~]# sgsnemu -l 3.3.3.3 -r 3.3.3.1 Using default DNS server Local IP address is: 3.3.3.3 (3.3.3.3) Remote IP address is: 3.3.3.1 (3.3.3.1) IMSI is: 240010123456789 (0xf987654321010042) Using NSAPI: 0 Using GTP version: 1 Using APN: internet Using selection mode: 1 Using MSISDN: 46702123456 Initialising GTP library openggsn[24632]: GTP: gtp_newgsn() started Done initialising GTP library Sending off echo request Setting up PDP context #0 Waiting for response from ggsn........ I'm getting the following error on GGSN: *Sep 19 20:45:35.487: %GTP-2-PDPACTIVATIONFAIL: GTP PDP activation/update failed, GSN: 0.0.0.0, TID: 00, Reason: Mandatory info element invalid *Sep 19 20:45:35.491: %GTP-0-GTPv1PACKETPARSINGERROR: GSN: 3.3.3.1, TEID: 1, APN: NULL, Reason: Mandatory ie incorrect Mandatory info element invalid And the following cause value on sgsnemu: Received echo response Received create PDP context response. Cause value: 201 Seems like the GSN adddr 0.0.0.0 ,TID: 00 generated by sgsnemu are invalid. Looking forward for a workaround fix to help me move forward, any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Anish

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GPRS' PDCH idle filling
by Alexander Chemeris 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hi all, Does anyone know how should we fill PDCH when no downlink transmission is present? I can't find any mention about this in the standard. If someone have traces from existing networks, I would very much appreciate this. Some background - we've recently started working on GPRS implementation for OpenBTS, and we're stuck at the very beginning - mobile sends RACH, but doesn't respond to our Packet Channel Immediate Assignment. After spending quite some time tweaking Immediate Assignment message, our conclusion is that mobile may want to see some "filler" date at the idle PDCH and we don't do this yet. I know that OpenBSC has GPRS working, so I hope someone here may help us. -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris.

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Update to gen_ladder.pl tool
by Harald Welte 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hi! I've finally taken some time to re-write the gen_ladder tool in order to avoid the stupid 'bent arrow' problem that was caused by using 'dot'. I'm now drawing bitmap images directly from Perl using 'GD', rendering PNG images. Support for printing a title and automati scaling of the font size has been added. However, this new version doesn't yet support the bi-directional arrows and dashed lines. Patches are welcome ;) I tried to use GD::SVG at some earlier version, and it seemed to work too, i.e. we will have an easy path to still generate vector graphics, if required. There are also way more *.lad files in the repository now for various protocol transaction, including supplementary services, roaming calls, etc. Regards, Harald -- - Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.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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RFC extend osmo_signal infrastructure
by Daniel Willmann 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hello list, I would like to be able to send a TRAP over the control interface for certain signals. For this it would be nice if the signals have a text representation of their name as is the case with the (rate) counters. I want to propose a different API where you register the signals (and maybe even the subsystems) and provide a name for them. The function register_signal would then return the numeric representation of the signal. The performance hit would only be during registering, not during dispatch. The callback function would still be called with the numeric representation in order to avoid resolving the name to the number every time. Inside the callback you would have to resolve the name of the signal to the actual number, but using static variables you'll only have to do it the first time: void signal_cb(unsigned int subsysnum, unsigned int signalnum, void *signal_data, void *handler_data) { static unsigned int foosig, barsig; if (foosig == 0) { foosig = osmo_signal_get_by_name("foo"); } if (barsig == 0) { barsig = osmo_signal_get_by_name("bar"); } switch (signalnum) { case foosig: do_stuff; break; case barsig: do_other_stuff; break; } } The functions that dispatch the signals would have to do something similar. Ideas? Is this too complex? Do we gain enough from registering signals at runtime or should we rather keep the enums and add a value_string for the name/description? Regards, Daniel Willmann

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nanoBTS GPRS question
by Jon Southall 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi, I am looking for some help debugging a nanoBTS setup with OpenBSC/SGSN/GGSN as I am struggling getting GPRS to work. I am seeing the following error in the SGSN output: debian4:/opt/openbsc/openbsc/src/gprs# ./osmo-sgsn -c osmo_sgsn.cfg <0011> gprs_ns.c:151 NSVCI=65534 Creating NS-VC <0011> gprs_ns.c:151 NSVCI=65535 Creating NS-VC <0011> gprs_ns.c:738 Creating NS-VC for BSS at 192.168.60.200:23000 <0011> gprs_ns.c:620 NSEI=65535 Rx NS RESET (NSVCI=0, cause=O&M intervention) <0011> gprs_ns.c:488 NSEI=101 Tx NS RESET ACK (NSVCI=101) <0011> gprs_ns.c:797 NSEI=101 Rx NS UNBLOCK <0012> gprs_bssgp.c:246 BSSGP BVCI=0 Rx RESET cause=Transmission capacity modified <0012> gprs_bssgp.c:246 BSSGP BVCI=2 Rx RESET cause=Transmission capacity modified <0012> gprs_bssgp.c:269 Cell 1-1-1-0 CI 0 on BVCI 2 <0012> gprs_bssgp.c:322 BSSGP BVCI=2 Rx BVC-UNBLOCK <0012> gprs_bssgp.c:322 BSSGP BVCI=2 Rx BVC-UNBLOCK <0012> gprs_bssgp.c:462 BSSGP BVCI=2 Rx Flow Control BVC <0012> gprs_bssgp.c:346 BSSGP TLLI=0x7f60277f Rx UPLINK-UNITDATA <0013> gprs_llc.c:428 LLC SAPI=1 C FCS=0x447ea5CMD=UI DATA <0013> gprs_llc.c:700 LLC RX: unknown TLLI 0x7f60277f, creating LLME on the fly I came across this thread http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.openbsc.general/687 which talks about a similar error but hasn't helped resolve the problem. I have a second hand nanoBTS unit, are there any configuration settings I need to change on the unit itself to make it work with the example configs from OpenBSC? Any help/advice much appreciated Thanks Jon _______________________ Jon Southall Technical Operations Manager E: jon.southall(a)boku.com<mailto:jon.southall@boku.com> M: +14153427958 [cid:image001.png@01CC82AD.3D217E20] _______________________

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VTY hacks for automatic document generation
by Holger Hans Peter Freyther 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Hi, my goal is to generate our wiki pages (or docbook, or...) for the config formats from the VTY commands directly. We might also want/need to add additional docs inside the command. My current hack is this: diff --git a/src/vty/command.c b/src/vty/command.c index ab1eaca..bcf72d0 100644 --- a/src/vty/command.c +++ b/src/vty/command.c @@ -426,6 +426,20 @@ void install_element(enum node_type ntype, struct cmd_element *cmd) cmd->strvec = cmd_make_descvec(cmd->string, cmd->doc); cmd->cmdsize = cmd_cmdsize(cmd->strvec); + + printf("NODE: %d\n", ntype); + + int j; + for (j = 0; j < vector_count(cmd->strvec); ++j) { + vector descvec = vector_slot(cmd->strvec, j); + int i; + for (i = 0; i < vector_active(descvec); i++) { + struct desc *desc = vector_slot(descvec, i); + if (desc == NULL) + continue; + printf(" %s %s\n", desc->cmd, desc->str); + } + } Output: NODE: 1 show Show running system information version Displays program version NODE: 1 list Print command list NODE: 1 exit Exit current mode and down to previous mode NODE: 1 help Description of the interactive help system NODE: 1 enable Turn on privileged mode command NODE: 1 terminal Set terminal line parameters length Set number of lines on a screen <0-512> Number of lines on screen (0 for no pausing) NODE: 1 Problems: The goal would to have a VTY command to introspect all vty commands, one of the problems is to do it recursively. E.g. we have commands that move to another node but this is via code and can not be seen from the outside. The other problem is we can not get the name from the node number... PS: Can we move VTY to AGPL code, bit by bit? Remove one public function and reimplement to make OpenBSC work again? E.g. the vector in vectors is a bit crazy...

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