Re: Testing voice calls in OsmoCNI

Vadim Yanitskiy <vyanitskiy(a)sysmocom.de> wrote: I was being semi-sarcastic there: I responded to your initial inquiry in good faith, explaining how I test voice calls in my environment, which I do all the time - as I explained, doing voice tests is one of the reasons for setting up my own GSM network in the first place. But when my response was met with negativity, I had to re-read your initial inquiry, to see if my response was justified, and I saw the part asking "I would like to know how do you guys test voice" - that part was my justification for responding in the first place - and then I thought "wait a minute, Vadim said _guys_, so strictly speaking I am _not_ supposed to respond to this one after all". Please be assured that I know full well that you did not intend any gender discrimination, I was simply being sarcastic in interpreting the negativity that ensued. If someone did that, I would have engaged them in a debate, starting with chronology: in every single instance where I have developed an alternative to some component that was previously implemented somewhere in Osmocom universe, chronologically the Osmocom version existed first, and then came my alternative: Osmocom original Falconian alternative --------------------------------------------- OsmocomBB FreeCalypso pysim fc-simtool and related tools osmo-sip-connector ThemWi system sw gapk gsm-codec-lib All items in the left column in the above table existed before I embarked on developing corresponding items in the right column. Therefore, if someone came to me to argue that items in the left column are better than those in the right column, my response would be that flaws in those left-column items (ethical for the first row, technical for the other rows) were the very reason why I had to develop right- column alternatives in the first place. I can't change the way I am; all I can do is continue working on GSM (emphasis on _GSM_) to the best of my ability. My loyalty is to GSM, I seek to build networks that will be no worse than those being wrongfully shut down by first-world commercial operators, as well as new GSM MS that bring back the "glory days" of late 1990s and early 2000s - and looking at the state of currently available FOSS and PSS offerings in this area, I see that Osmocom already provides a very good starting point, but it is just that, a starting point, and there is a ton of work remaining. I am actively working to get from "here" (current state of FOSS and PSS offerings, mostly Osmocom) to "there" (the world of GSM I dream into being), but I do a lot of things differently from those of you who have adopted Osmocom as your core identity, rather than just a tool in service to goals of GSM. M~