[GSM Receiver] using OpenBSC as a GSM Receiver

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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Thu Mar 3 21:56:44 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:48:17PM +0100, screaming-pain at libero.it wrote:

> I don't want to decode them or do anything fancy, I am mainly interested in 
> what it is sent in clear.
> Is it possible to use the OpenBSC architecture to capture GSM messages and 
> later analyze them using wireshark?

No. You can only capture messages on the Abis interface between your own BTS
and BSC, but not sniff stuff off the air.  That's what you can do with
Airprobe and OsmocomBB.

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