Count number of SCCP connections, number of BSC reconnects,
number of calls. For most of them we have a per BSC and a
global count.
Right now all structs using the counters survive until the
end of the application so we do not need to free them.
It was possible that the nat detected the core network
gateway as the bts just due being the first to send data
to the port. Fix it by setting a dummy bts_ip to force
the mgcp_network code to compare the in_addr.
This method currently prepends the IPA header and sends
the data. In the future we might be able to use SCTP for
it.
We have to remove the IPA header from the static messages
for that to work.
This code is untested.
E.g. when the MGCP on the BSS is not responding we could block
all of our endpoints. As we are mostly in the middle and forward
bits we will happily reallocate the endpoints.
When not being able to allocate the msgb for the forwarded data
there is no point in keeping and preparing the transaction. So
we can move the msg creation a bit up and only do the allocations
after having done the msgb allocation.
When receiving a DLCX we will now delete the endpoint right away. This
means when a BSS does not respond to the DLCX our endpoint will not
be blocked. E.g. this could happen when the MGCP is restarting or
in similiar conditions. When the BSS is not responding we move the
burden up the chain to the CallAgent. We have to still keep track
of the transaction id and the bsc pointer to keep the mgcp forward
routine working.
Sending a RLSD with SCCP failure makes the MSC free all the resources
(MGCP, audio channels), right now we are ignoring the RLC we get from
the network and print a unhandled message.
This value is copied into the bts_audio_payload when allocating
a BTS MGCP endpoint. For the nat we have actually no interest in
patching MGCP messages. We will patch them to the network because
the code will do it anyway, we will not patch things back to the
BTS.
Remove the code to parse port as we need to discover the
BTS behind the nat and most likely it will have a different
port than the one advertised by the BTS.
This reverts commit c6a1fe773d.
Fix the test to search for the original message instead
of the already patched one that should not find any items
anyway.
The remove is called on already patched connections so we
need to match it with the patch reference count.
Instead of checking the token for NULL we need to check if running
was set to null. Look at the data of the token and check if the line
was ending with a \r\n or \n and then when rewriting a line use that
line ending as well. Add a new test for that.
The MGCP protocol parsing is adding '\0' to make sure we do not
parse beyond where we should parse. This does not mix with strtok
or similiar routines.
For now we will read the msg into a global array first, then copy
it to the msgb for mgcp protocol handling and if we are required
to forward it to the MGCP we have a untouched copy we will modify
into our own msgb.
Attempt to find the message by transaction id, then patch
the response and use the IP/PORT of the local network, update
the ci with the one from the BSC.
This is currently not tracking any state of the MGCP and will
not handle two bsc's... this will need to happen later.
With this in we should be feature complete and now enter the
mode of making all of this work reliable and fixing thinko's
and other bugs.
* Forward a rewritten msg to the BSS. We change the IP and port
to point to the NAT instead of the core network. We also keep
track of the BSC and the transacition id.
* Handle the case where we have not found a SCCP connection and
need to send a response ourselves.
Add code to change the ip and port for audio data inside
MGCP messages. This is needed because the BSS might be
behind the NAT and can not reach the network directly and
might be behind a nat so the announced sourceport is not
the one as we see it.
When losing the SCCP connection make sure that we free all
endpoints. The disconnection of the BSC should already make
sure they are closed but this makes sure everything is
properly reset.
For the nat we will have NAT and MGCP in the same process
and this commit starts with that. We are linking in the MGCP
code and one can embed MGCP config snippets...
* Return the SCCP connection. This will be needed to store the
assigned timeslot in there.
* Update code to work with this change
* This uncovered a bug in the CC handling, at the time the BSC was
passed it was still a null pointer and the code would have failed.
Moving it here means we can more easily test this code, there is one
behaviour change with the code that we only support paging messages
with one LAC and will silently ignore the others.
When sending a message to the MSC in the case of DT1
messages we only have the address of the MSC, so we
need to go with that, otherwise (e.g. in case of a CR, RLC)
we do have the source address and need to patch it.
When forwarding a message to the BSC we do receive
a msg that should contain the patched address, we need
to unpatch it...
On a CC message we will need to remeber where the source local
reference of the network belonged so we can properly identify
the connection when receiving UDT messages.
When we disconnect from the MSC handle it by pushing the problem
to our connected clients. We will simply close all connections,
reject all new BSC connections and attempt to reconnect to the MSC.
Create a BSC<->MSC interface and use it for the BSC MSC IP and the
BSC NAT to reduce code duplication on handling reconnects to the MSC
and cleaning up the local state. The code is only partially tested
and will contain bugs. Currently both the BSC and the NAT will just
exit on connection loss and this way have the current behavior.
In case we disconnect with some pending operations we will need to
signal the MSC that something is wrong. This could be by sending a
RLSD directly, or a clear command. Another part of the fix is to
respond with a RLC on unknown RLSD messages.
* Provide access to the GSM0808 TLV attributes so we can use it in
the nat code.
* Read the PAGING message, if it is paged by LAC we go through each
LAC and then attempt to find the proper BSC connection and then
send the message to that BSC.
Based on the token the NAT/MUX is capable of figuring out
which LAC this BSC is supposed to satisfy. This will be
needed for messages like paging that can be done by LAC.
* Create struct bsc_nat and move the various lists into this structure
* Create the VTY code
* Call the VTY init and parsing code
* Create functions to create the types..
* Add some stuff into the bsc_connection to be used for the NAT with
proper config files. E.g. to close the connection if the BSC does not
respond to a given command.
For the one MSC and n BSC case we need to patch the SCCP source
local reference on connection orientated links to avoid a clash.
For simple UDT packages we just let them pass and for SCCP connection
we have to:
1.) Create an entry on Connection Request
2.) Patch the entry on Connection Confirm, Connection Refuse,
Connection Release, DT1, Connect Release Complete
3.) Remove the entry on Connection Release Complete
The current code is blocking CRs, Release Complete from the MSC, and
creates the connection state only from the BSC side. The code to
assign a source reference is taken from sccp.c and handles wrap
arounds and such properly. We rely on the SCCP parser to fill out the
place to the source reference correctly so we can easily fix it.
The whole code is young and might contain bugs we need to resolve..
Introduce a bsc_nat_parse method to parse a IP Access method
into various parts. Write out the IPA Proto, in case SCCP is used,
store the msg type, pointers to the source/dest local reference and
other information.
Use the result of bsc_nat_parse inside the bsc_nat_filter method
to decide if the message should be dropped or not.
In the future the bsc_nat_parse result will be used for patching
SCCP references and other parts of the message.
The filter language should be able to filter the msg type of SCCP
messages and gain the "NOT" word in the filter language.
The first part is to analyze the IP Access Header and only forward
SCCP messages for now. In the future we might want to do MGCP
signalling through this protocol and connection as well and need to
update this then.
Harald actually pointed out that this feature is just NAT. We want
to connect n-real BSCs to one BSC Mux. We will talk the ip.access
protocol and SCCP over of this link.
The mux will drop certain GSM messages (like the reset), it will
replace source local reference (NAT functionality) and it will handle
some GSM08.08 specially.
Get the thing started...
Holger Hans Peter Freyther