Support for Flexi BTS

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Andreas Eversberg andreas at eversberg.eu
Fri Jan 10 23:53:21 UTC 2014


hi,

we managed to run a nokia flexi bts with openbsc. the bts type is 
"nokia-site".

on channel request, the bts nacks the channel activation with cause 0x65 
(protocol error, optional information element). by removing the Channel 
Identification IE from the channel activation message, everything 
worked, so we assume that this IE causes this error. we tried to modify it:

- no zero-length Mobile Allocation included in Channel Identification IE
- TLV instead of TV for Channel Description in Channel Identification IE
- Channel Description in Channel Identification IE with type 0x62 
instead of 0x64

all of these modifications result in the same error. so we came to the 
conclusion to remove the Channel Identification IE, since it is not 
really required. attached is the preview patch.

does anyone have ABIS traces of a real network, to check how the IE is 
encoded there? is there any way to get more information from nokia bts 
why it rejects the channel when using this IE?

regards,

andreas

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