[SHOWCASE] OpenBSC used during Queensday (NL)

Goodafternoon, This is just a quick email to let you know that we are currently (as in: today) using OpenBSC to offer a GPRS service to some equipment during Queensday. For those of you that do not know this: Queensday is a Dutch festivity where the birthday of the Queen is celebrated. It attracts a mass of people and under that condition no (normal) mobile network will stay operational. Since we have some equipment running, we decided to try out creating our own mobile network. For this we installed several ip.access nanoBTSes and use OpenBSC as central software. Unfortunately this is not a complete success. Although we tested it and those tests gave us confidence, we now experience a lot of connection losses. Several nanoBTS'es bootstrap quite regularly, and almost all connected devices are unreachable after several minutes (some later than others). Only restarting OmniBSC quite often seems to bring back some life. Up until now I have been unable to find out why things are wrong. While preparing for this use of OpenBSC I came accross some things that might be worthwhile to share with you. I'll do that in separate messages, so contents does not get clobbered. Please allow me to thank you all for the great work you have done in this set of software. I hope some of my experiences will help you pushing this forward. Kind regards, Frank