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Harald Welte laforge at osmocom.orgHi Vadim, On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 11:28:30PM +0700, Vadim Yanitskiy wrote: > While working on this, I stumbled upon the burst filling feature in osmo-trx > [4], that is disabled by default. If enabled, osmo-trx would be sending > dummy bursts itself, so there is no need to send them from osmo-bts-trx, and > thus no need to complicate the burst distribution logic. > > I am now wondering why don't we enable this feature by default? No idea, sorry. > From the VTY reference: > > > Send a dummy burst when there is nothing to send on C0 (TRX0) and > > empty burst on other channels. Use for OpenBTS compatibility only, > > don’t use with OsmoBTS as it breaks encryption. > > it's unclear how sending dummy bursts would break encryption... I also cannot follow that argument. Alexander Chemeris added this VTY text in 2019 in I752eb2c1162d084e8769181f2fcd6c0877663448, he should know? -- - Harald Welte <laforge at osmocom.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)