Using LLGMM-RESET.req, the GMM can request the LLC of the MS to reset
all its parameters, particularly the sequence numbers. We don't yet do
XID RESET retransmissions, and we don't yet generate a LLGMM-RESET.conf
primitive back to GMM.
The libosmo-abis merge broke Ericsson RBS support, as it didn't get the
part right where the per-TRX OML sign_link is determined while
transmitting OM2000 messages.
As a result of this fix, we can remove the 'to_trx_oml' parameter to
_abis_nm_sendmsg(), which is a nice cleanup.
In order to have the MNCC application reliably decide on the codec type,
it needs to know if we are running on a TCH/F or TCH/H. Thus, we pass
lchan_mode as a new parameter to the 'struct gsm_mncc'
Remove the separation of half-rate and full-rate AMR. The used rate
can be found inside the AMR payload. The signalling of what kind of
traffic channel is used can be done with the GSM 08.08 Chosen
Channel IE in the Assignment Complete message.
This way I can use a fixed payload type in the MGCP GateWay but
have a mixed TCH/F and TCH/H config. E.g. use TCH/F FR3 for some
subscribers when connected to MSC A but use AMR5.9 on a TCH/F for
MSC B when all TCH/Hs are gone.
Move the regexp parsing code from the NAT to libcommon as it will
be used by the NAT and BSC code. This also adds the #include <regex.h>
include to gsm_data. This header should be split up.
This is a big patch that ports openBSC over libosmo-abis.
Sorry, the changes that are included here are all dependent
of libosmo-abis, splitting them into smaller pieces would
leave the repository in some intermediate state, which is
not desired.
The main changes are:
- The directory libabis/ has been removed as it now lives in
libosmo-abis.
- new configuration file format for nanoBTS and HSL femto, we
need to define the virtual e1_line and attach it to the OML
link.
- all the existing BTS drivers (nanoBTS, hsl femto, Nokia site,
BS11 and rbs2000) now use the new libosmo-abis framework.
- use r232 input driver available in libosmo-abis for bs11_config.
- use ipa_msg_recv instead of old ipaccess_read_msg function.
- delete definition of gsm_e1_subslot and input_signal_data.
These structures now lives in libosmo-abis.
Most of this patch are deletions of libabis/ which has been
moved to libosmo-abis.
This patch also modifies openBSC to use all the new definitions
available in libosmocore and libosmo-abis. In order to do that,
we have replaced the following:
- DINP, DMI, DMIB and DMUX by their respective DL* correspondences.
- SS_GLOBAL by SS_L_GLOBAL
- SS_INPUT by SS_L_INPUT
- S_GLOBAL_SHUTDOWN by S_L_GLOBAL_SHUTDOWN
- SS_INPUT by SS_L_INPUT
- S_INP_* by S_L_INP_* sub-signals
- E1INP_NODE by L_E1INP_NODE vty node
This patch has been tested with:
- one nanoBTS
- the HSL femto with the examples available under libosmo-abis
- BS11 with both dahdi and misdn drivers.
This patch modifies openBSC code to use msg->dst which stores the
pointer to the signalling link structure instead of the pointer to
the transceiver structure.
This patch prepares the introduction of libosmo-abis.
The timer callback will simply reset the lchan state to NONE in order
to prevent channels getting stuck in 'activation requested' or
'deactivation requested' states.
Scenario: BTS are configured and working, then the BSC stops working
for some reason (crash or administrative stop).
If the BSC comes back to life, LAPD among other things does not know
about the previous existing TEIs. Instead of ignoring these frames,
we notify the driver that we are seeing frames with unknown TEIs, so
it can try to recover, e.g. by resending the SABM message.
The MS Radio Access Capability IE can be _very_ long in some recent
high-end mobile phones, way beyond the old 14-byte limit. We increase
our array to 52 bytes, and make sure not to overflow that buffer.
The idea that MCC and MNC is enough to classify a subscriber
turns out to be wrong. Certain operatos license a number range
of IMSIs to others. When we see a '^' in the MCC field we treat
it as a regexp. The code now turns the MCC/MNC into a regexp
for the IMSI. It is not using extended POSIX regexp to match
the behavior of the access list.
This should not introduce any functional changes, it just re-arranges
some definitions in the header file, and introduces the ROLE_BSC
define that we enable for the BSC-specific fields.
The daemons set up nanoBTS and HSL femto sockets by default, ie. the
three sockets to support these two drivers are open even if we have
no BTS of that kind.
This patch enables on-demand socket creation, ie. we only enable them
if we have one BTS at least that requires it.
I added two new attributes to the gsm_bts object, they are:
* the start() function includes the code that we need to run to start
the BTS. This new function contains the socket creation in the
particular case of nanoBTS and HSL femto.
* the started boolean, which is used to know if we have already
started the BTS, ie. we have already invoked start().
Note that, I have splitted the bts_model_*_init() function into two
functions, the _init() functions that register the BTS driver
and the _start() functions that start BTS driver on-demand.
While I was at it, I added several changes/cleanups to this patch:
* Group all bts_model_*_init() calls into one function bts_init(),
which is called in the initialization path of osmo-nitb and
osmo-bsc.
* Add openbsc/bss.h that contains the declaration of
bsc_bootstrap_network, bsc_shutdown_net and bts_init.
* Add missing e1inp_init() in osmo-bsc.
* Fix missing declaration of hsl_setup in openbsc/e1_input.h
Introduce a paging group that a BSC can refer to and is used
during the LAC lookup. This way paging can be flooded through
the network and just filtered at the last element in the core.
The current code tries to find _one_ bsc for a paging message
and then continues. The new code will try to find multiple BSCs
for each LAC. This is done in preparation of having two BSCs
handle the same LAC. This code right now is O(m*n) but it will
be worse once paging groups are landed.
The code to test the function was reduced to just test the lac
lookup code as the other part can not be tested in a standalone
setup anymore.
The code to create the struct gsm_bts is in libcommon right now
and we can not call paging_init from there. Right now it appears
to be the easiest of doing the init internally.
Be able to configure a list of destinations (duplicates allowed)
that will be tried in a round robin fashion. The change is in
the bsc_msc_connection to operate on a list. We achieve the
round robin nature with the same trick used in the paging code
to delete and append the current entry. The nat code was updated
to compile but one can only configure one destination.
For restarting the NAT we can now block it, it will not accept
new connections and for existing connections it will attempt
to drop them over time. A blocked NAT will end up with no BSC
connections left and then can be safely restarted.
Keep track of the used transaction identifier and always forward
messages to the USSD provider. E.g. this can be used to have a
dialogue going. Right now it is still possible that the MSC will
close down the connection.
* include/openbsc/ipaccess.h: Reserve a protocol number for control
commands
* input/ipaccess.c: New function ipaccess_prepend_header_ext prepends
the extension header
This patch finishes the new ipaccess_send_*() functions and use them
in the ipaccess-proxy code.
I have also cleanup the definition of the PONG, ID_ACK and ID_REQ
messages (including some minor documentation about them).
I had to rename ipaccess_recvmsg() in ipaccess-proxy to avoid clashing
with the one defined in libabis.
For the USSD module we only want to handle requests that are
legitimate. This is achieved by looking for the CM Service Accept
or the BSSAP CIPHER MODE COMMAND.
This patch extends the make_sock() prototype so you can fully set
the fields priv_nr and data of the bsc_fd structure.
This is the first step to get rid of the internal make_sock()
implementation that ipaccess-proxy uses.
This patch includes a minor cleanup to pass INADDR_ANY instead
of zero, if you do not want to bind the socket to one specific
address.
libosmogsm is a new library that is distributed in the libosmocore.
Now, openbsc depends on it. This patch gets openbsc with this
change.
This patch also rewrites all include path to the new
osmocom/[gsm|core]
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@gnumonks.org>
This change is required to finish the integration of the VTY and
the per-application logging categories that provides:
"vty: integration with logging framework"
in libosmocore.
It has been tested with osmo-nitb. The other just compiled tested.
The HSL Femtocell seems to be a poor man implementation of the
ip.access Abis/IP protocol, but cutting corners wherever possible.
We try to workaround those corners wherever possible...
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.
When the new_lchan for handover is failing we should stop the
handover operation. This is fixing a crash that we get a timeout
on the lchan and have no conn set to it. Introduce a flag to
the bsc_clear_handover to not free the lchan. In case the ho_lchan
is failing we do not want to call lchan_release as it would
reset the state.
Instead of creating the sockets in the RSL code we will do this
in the CRCX_ACK, MDCX_ACK, DLCX_IND signal handler of gsm_04_08.
Introduce a handover signal so we can repatch the RTP sockets in
the gsm_04_08 as well.
This adds mncc_sock_from_cc() as a handler function for CC messages
to be passed to the MNCC interface. If there is no MNCC socket
registered, we immediately release any CC related messages.
Together with flushing all established CC transaction at MNCC socket
close time, this ensures that all resources are released and no
new resources can be established until the MNCC applicaiton has
re-attached.
The MNCC messages now again get directly handled by the net->mncc_recv()
callback. If the callee wants to put them in a queue, it' his business
to do that.
The reason for this is quite simple: We want to make sure anyone
running a customized version of OpenBSC to operate a network will
have to release all custom modifiations to the source code.
The SS_LCHAN signals now always include the lchan_sig_data. For
the measurement report it will optionally include the measurement
report as well. Attempt to update all handlers of this signal as well
The sms queue will attempt to send one SMS per subscriber
to fill all the available slots. It will handle the case
where paging has not started, timed out or if there was
any kind of other failure. It is also retransmitting SMS
in case of failures.
The SMSqueue will be responsible of sending to the user. It will
do so in a loop and will also try not to overload the BTS. This
means the throughput of SMS will be limited.
This is providing access to the paging result, the sms,
the transaction. This will allow the SMS queue to do
decisions based on the source of the failure.
Start counting the attempts of each paging request and call
the callback with the PAGING_BUSY type when the paging request
timed out but the subscriber was not paged at all. This can
only happen with a huge paging backlog.
In case the system has so many pending paging
Introduce a method that will remove all subscribers that have a
zero use count. This is useful if someone wants to purge subscribers
from memory or wants to disable the everything in RAM feature.
This is implemented by not freeing the subscriber when the
reference count becomes smaller than zero. We hope that this
will save many database accesses during the congres.
In the GPRS NS protocol stack, the amount of NS/BSSGP headers like MS RADIO
CAPA INFO can be quite long. In order to fit the full user message and
those headers, we have to enlarge the head/tailroom of the msgb allocations.
Currently the nanoBTS bootstrap code requires a high delay
otherwise we are not bringing the device up properly. Changing
the init code turns out harder than it seems like. So this is
a workaround for that to allow a high speed RSL/OML connection
after the bringup.
The line driver can have a default TS delay. It is set to the
current default for the nanoBTS and the BS11. For the ipaccess
case we will set the delay lower for the RSL connection and
inside the ipaccess-config we can set it low right away to
have fast firmware flashing and such.
Instead of sending many messages we will queue the OML
messages and wait for the ACK/NACK before sending the
next message from the queue. We tag the msgb to remember
if we need to wait for an ack or not.
We keep the order of all messages, on ACKs and similiar
occassions we will drown the queue until we reach a message
that needs to be acked and then wait for that ack again.
Possible breakage can appear when we send an OML (e.g.
BS11 specific message) msg which does not need to be acked
through the abis_nm_sendmsg call. The fix will be to use
the _direct version of this method.
Re-Enable as it might have fixed something... who knows.
Conflicts:
openbsc/include/openbsc/abis_nm.h
openbsc/include/openbsc/gsm_data.h
openbsc/src/abis_nm.c
openbsc/src/gsm_data.c
Harald Welte
Holger Hans Peter Freyther
Alexander Huemer
Dieter Spaar