wireshark help

historical

Hi Ken.
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:59:06PM +0800, ken wrote:

> I have the OpenBSC up and running with a nanobts at 900MHz.
> I would require some help with the following issues.
> 
> 1) I'm able to view most of the air interface messages on wireshark but not
> able to
> view the gsm system information blocks. Is there any patches I should add on
> wireshark and is it possible
> to provide instructions on how to apply the patches ?

no, it always worked with the current wireshark svn version. no patches needed
for proper RSL decoding.  maybe you're using some old/release version
of wireshark.

> 2) I'm able to see the rrlp request made to the mobile on wireshark. However
> I'm not
> see any rrlp  response from the mobile on wireshark. I'm sure my mobile
> suppot ms-based rrlp request.
> Again, what are the patches to wireshark I should apply? Appreciate if
> details on how to apply the patches
> are provided.

again, no patches needed. if your phone doesn't respond, it doesn't like the
request or doesn't suppor RRLP.

> 3) I have copied out the gprs branch and am able to run the gprs OpenBSC
> codes without any problems.
> Just that at this stage, my mobile (i-phone 3Gs) does not seem to be able to
> do a gprs attach and have
> the OpenBSC allocate it a P-TMSI. Is there any thing I should do to get my
> i-phone 3Gs to do a gprs attach on the
> OpenBSC? (For my i-phone 3Gs, the settings is gsm mode only)

the gprs branch is highly experimental, unmaintained and unsupported at this
point.  Don't expect anything to work at all.  I'll get around improving that
through the next weeks/months.

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