Hi Neels,
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:35:37PM +0200, Neels Hofmeyr wrote:
What about this one: I assume handover will be an entirely different issue to be tackled with the new A-interface and we can drop this VTY command without substitute for now?
You have to differentiate between intra-BSC hand-over and inter-BSC hand-over (or even inter-MSC hand-over).
Intra-BSC hand-over is exactly like it is now. The command you're referring to thus simply has to go to into the BSC. The only problem is that the subscriber will probably not be possible to be identified by the IMSI as the BSC doesn't normally cache that information. But what kind of identifier do we show in "show lchan"? TMSI? SCCP Connection ID?
This VTY command is quite essential to test hand-over during development and testing.
Once we have the Osmocom extension TLVs by which the MSC can provide a subscriber identity to the BSC, we can re-introduce identifying the subscriber connection by such identity/name.
Inter-BSC or Inter-MSC handover is something that we didn't have in NITB, but which is not really relevant to this question.