Hi Keith,
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:25:12AM -0600, Keith wrote:
SMPP specifies only three status possibilities:
0 = Available
1 = Disabled
2 = Not Available (Detaching)
I've added 3 for IMSI_ATTACH - Actually I ended up using != PERIODIC
because not all phones send an ATTACH after a DETACH, some send NORMAL LUR.
I think it might make sense to add a new IE/TLV as a sub-type of "Available",
this way I would think it's more compatible to other implementations as
additional IEs are typically simply ignored.
Furthermore, I'm not convinced your !=PERIODIC will do what you want, as NORMAL
will also happen between location areas, so neither ATTACH nor PERIODIC.
One idea is to add logic to osmo-msc to distinguish whether this really
was a new subscriber that was previously unknown to the MSC (and Then send
"Available"),
or simply send no SMPP notifiation at all if the subscriber was previously already
known to osm-msc. This way no protocol changes need to be introduced at all.
The alternative would be to add a new, non-standard IE whihc just passes the LU type
transparently through.
do we want/accept this functionality in master
osmo-msc?
I think either of the two ideas I outlined above could go master.
Regards,
Harald
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
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