GPRS branch status updates

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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Tue Nov 3 00:25:14 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:03:42PM +0000, Dieter Spaar wrote:
> Hello Harald,
> 
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:47:18 +0900, "Harald Welte" <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote:
> > 
> > This is actually very funny.  According to the protocol, a RA update should
> > only be performed if the MS was/is already GPRS ATTACHED to this network
> > before.  It clearly wasn't in this case, as the OpenBSC network never
> > offered GPRS support.  Still, it tries it.  That's why we're rejecting it.
> 
> Not sure if I understand it in detail, from my understanding an RA Update
> is performed when the Routing Area has changed (or the periodic RA update
> timer has expired). So if the phone is already attached to a network,
> shouldn't we receive the RA update if it selects our new RA ?

a routing area change is a routing area change within one network.  if it
enters a new network (different MCC/MNC), it needs to gprs attach to this
network first.  

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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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