Large RAN installations may benefit from distributing the RTP voice
stream load over multiple media gateways.
libosmo-mgcp-client supports MGW pooling since version 1.8.0 (more than
one year ago). OsmoBSC has already been making use of it since then (see
osmo-bsc.git 8d22e6870637ed6d392a8a77aeaebc51b23a8a50); lets use this
feature in osmo-hngw too.
This commit is also part of a series of patches cleaning up
libosmo-mgcp-client and slowly getting rid of the old non-mgw-pooled VTY
configuration, in order to keep only 1 way to configure
libosmo-mgcp-client through VTY.
Related: SYS#5091
Related: SYS#5987
Change-Id: I371dc773b58788ee21037dc25d77f556c89c6b61
Don't release the HNB context as there's plenty of code that
assumes there's always a HNB context associated with a SCTP connection.
Instead, simply unset the hnb_registered flag in the context when
processing a HNB_DE-REGISTER.
Related: OS#5676
Change-Id: Id5c4f5c900ea049f54afbf58edb84b4dc00b1dcb
It is reported that a third-party SGSN is rejecting SCCP CR when the
SCCP message part exceeds a certain length. The solution is to first
send an SCCP CR without payload, and send the payload in a DT later.
Add config option
hnbgw
sccp cr max-payload-len <0-999999>
If the RANAP payload surpasses the given length, osmo-hnbgw will first
send an SCCP CR without payload, cache the RANAP payload, and put that
in an SCCP DT once the SCCP CC is received.
The original idea was to limit the size of the entire SCCP part of the
message, but I'm currently not sure how to determine that without
copying much of the osmo_sccp code. I figured using a limit on the RANAP
payload is sufficient. To avoid the error with above third-party SGSN,
the easy solution is to set max-payload-len to 0, so that we always get
a separate SCCP CR without payload.
Related: SYS#5968
Related: I827e081eaacfb8e76684ed1560603e6c8f896c38 (osmo-ttcn3-hacks)
Change-Id: If0c5c0a76e5230bf22871f527dcb2dbdf34d7328
osmo-hnbgw lacks support for an co-located media gateway. This makes it
virtually impossible to isolate the HNB from the core network properly.
Lets add MGCP support to osmo-hnbgw so that it can control a co-located
media gateway to relay the RTP streams between HNB and core network.
Change-Id: Ib9b62e0145184b91c56ce5d8870760bfa49cc5a4
Related: OS#5152
Pau Espin
Harald Welte
Neels Hofmeyr
Philipp Maier