Hold on with the GSM 04.11 RP-ACK/RP-ERROR that we send to the MS until
we get a confirmation from the ESME, via SMPP DELIVER-SM-RESP, that we
can route this sms somewhere we can reach indeed.
After this change, the conversation looks like this:
MS GSM 03.40 SMSC SMPP 3.4 ESME
| | |
| SMS-SUBMIT | |
|------------------->| |
| | DELIVER-SM |
| |---------------->|
| | |
| | DELIVER-SM-RESP |
| |<----------------|
| GSM 04.11 RP-ACK | |
|<-------------------| |
| | |
Before this patch, the RP-ACK was sent back straight forward to the MS,
no matter if the sms can be route by the ESME or not. Thus, the user
ends up getting a misleading "message delivered" in their phone screen,
when the message may just be unroutable by the ESME hence silently
dropped.
If we get no reply from the ESME, there is a hardcoded timer that will
expire to send back an RP-ERROR to the MS indicating that network is
out-of-order. Currently this timer is arbitrarily set to 5 seconds. I
found no specific good default value on the SMPP 3.4 specs, section 7.2,
where the response_timer is described. There must be a place that
describes a better default value for this. We could also expose this
timer through VTY for configurability reasons, to be done later.
Given all this needs to happen asyncronously, ie. block the SMSC, this
patch extends the gsm_sms structure with two new fields to annotate
useful information to send the RP-ACK/RP-ERROR back to the MS of origin.
These new fields are:
* the GSM 04.07 transaction id, to look up for the gsm_trans object.
* the GSM 04.11 message reference so the MS of origin can correlate this
response to its original request.
Tested here using python-libsmpp script that replies with
DELIVER_SM_RESP and status code 0x0b (Invalid Destination). I can see
here on my motorola C155 that message cannot be delivered. I have tested
with the success status code in the SMPP DELIVER_SM_RESP too.
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