osmocom-net-gprs December 2017

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RFC: unit tests for kernel GTP module
by Harald Welte 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

Dear GTP-interested folks, I would love to somehow get towards some degree of unit testing (or even "continuous integration") for teh kernel GTP code. We currently have the original code in the kernel, we had some recent small fixes and now are getting more patches into place. With relatively few active users out there (and probably none of them in production yet), it's particularly easy to introduce regressions while working on the code. Also, having tested new code even against a test set with limited covrage could help to get more confidence in new patches and thus get them merged sooner. Using tools like sgsnemu of OpenGGSN and the command line tools included in libgtpnl, it should be possibel to cook up some scripts for testing. Even the most basic set of tests would be an improvement over what we have now. One could also think about pcap replay to test with hand-crafted or real-world packets from other GTP implementations. As much as I'd like to put something like this into place myself, I don't think I will be able to work much on this in the near future. The GTP module at this point is a pure hobby and contrary to some years ago while I started it, I don't have any contract work in the GTP area at this point, so other projects currently unfortunately get more attention. So in case somebody among the GTP-interested parties (Travelping, OAI, ...) would want to do something in terms of testing, I'd be more than happy if somebody would step ahead. Otherwise it's all just vapourware going to end up on my ever-growing TODO list :/ Also, if netdev folks have some ideas/pointers about possible frameworks/tools for this kind of testing [it must exist for at least some other kernel networking code?]: Please let me know. I'd be interested to have a look if there's something that can be used as a basis (starting network namespaces, sending/transmitting packets, test case startup/teardown, ...) My "old school" approach would have been to start one or multiple user-mode-linux kernels (those that are to be tested), and then have scripts that set up a gtp socket and gtp tunnels via the libgtp command line tools, and throw packets at that. But I'm sure there must be quite powerful frameworks for that kind of testing in the 21st century? How do other tunneling implementations handle this? 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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OsmoDevCon 2018 schedule planning
by Harald Welte 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

Dear Osmocom Community, [please respect the Reply-To and post all follow-up discussion to this to openbsc(a)lists.osmocom.org, so we avoid having long threads cross-posted to several mailing lists.] Like every year in early December, it is time to discuss as schedule for OsmoDevCon in the upcoming year. Note: Ths is about OsmoDevCon, the more private meeting of developers, *NOT* about OsmoCon, the public conference. == When, Who, Where == I propose the following date for OsmoDevCon 2018: April 20 - April 23rd, 2018 * Who: Active developers/contributors of Osmocom projects (as usual) * Where: IN-Berlin, Berlin (as usual) Please let me know ASAP if that proposed date works for everyone who'd want to attend. We can still change it now, but I would want to nail down the date pretty soon. == Format == After the experiment of reducing from 4 to 3 days last year (due to OsmoCon), we will again go for *four days* in 2018. However, we should clearly divide the days in a way that e.g. "GSM/3G" topics are on two days, while SDR+Other topics are on the other days, so people not interested in some topics can skip one or two days, as needed. We could even divide it further like: * 1 day 3GPP RAN (osmo-bts, osmo-bsc, osmo-pcu, virt_phy, fake_trx, ...) * 1 day 3GPP CN (osmo-msc, osmo-hlr, osmo-sip-connector, nextepc, etc.) * 2 days misc Regards, and looking forward to meeting you [again] in 2018, 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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