Introduce a VTY setting that right now needs to be set to
one. To make updating this setting possible we will now store
the number of endpoints in the bsc connection as well.
Allocate the status for an endpoint dynamically. We will support
BSCs with different amount of multiplexes and need to have this
flexibility in the future. Add the proper null checks to the
current users of this code.
This introducecs the new VTY command "neighbor-list mode manual-si5"
in combination with "si5 neighbor-list (add|del) arfcn <0-1024>",
which allows you to (optionally) have neighbor channel lists that
differ in SI5 and in SI2.
So far, all BTS we have interfaced had one OML link per BTS, independent of the
number of TRX. In Ericsson RBS 2000, there is an OML link for the DXU/IXU,
and one additional OML link for each TRX/TRU.
bsc_init.c was a big mess even only for two supported BTS models,
so before adding more BTS types, this needs a cleanup.
All the BTS specific code from bsc_init.c has now moved into
bts_{siemens_bs11,ipaccess_nanobts}.c
This has required that input_event() and nm_state_event() get both
converted to proper libosmocore signals instead of referencing external
symbols.
We cannot afford static/global state, as we may have multiple E1
lines, each having its own LAPD instance. Furthermore, we might
even have multiple LAPD instances on the same E1 line (think of
a multi-drop setup).
This also implements dynamic TEI allocation, i.e. no hardcoded
TEI list anymore.
This introduces a new 'e1_input' config node with a command to be
used like:
e1_line 0 driver misdn
This allows us to have different input drivers in the future
So far, OpenBSC simply assumed that all BTS's configured in openbsc.cfg are
neighbors of each other. While this is true for small site installations,
it is definitely not true in most real world cases. We now have the
following new commands at the 'configure bts' level:
'neighbor-list mode (auto|manual)' for selecting the mode
'neighbor-list (add|del) arfcn <0-1024>'
for adding/deleting ARFCN in manual mode
Instead of using more numbers from the proto range we will
use the 0xee and then have a mini header with our new proto
id in there. For a start rename the use types to _OLD.
The transaction layer was stopping paging requests that might or
might not have been owned by the transaction. This makes the subscr
code get stuck delivering requests. This code is mostly a band aid
and just makes sure that we will kick the queue if it is needed.
Remember if this channel got opened due a paging response and in
that case when we close it down we will call subscr_put_channel
that will try to page the subscriber again. This highlights the
lack of a good subscriber management in the MSC code.
The active channel might or might not be gone when the transaction
has been released. Instead of passing an invalid subscriber conn
we will pass the subscr that is ref-counted and guranteed to be
valid at this point. subscr_put_channel could search the connections
for an active connection if that is ever needed.
Holger Hans Peter Freyther
Harald Welte