like in libosmogsm, we separate between header files that are just
reflecting information in the respective specs, and header files that
related to our specific implementation.
Instead of direct function calls to individual functions, we now
generate primitives (osmo_prim) and send them to one
application-provided function "bssgp_prim_cb()"
The BSS-side of BSSGP requires quite a number of additional functions
for sending unidirectional messages that a SGSN never sends.
This is a first step into completing the BSSGP implementation and making
it ready to be used from osmo-bts and other BTS-side GPRS
implementations.
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>
According to the GPRS NS spec the maximum framesize
is 1600 octets for FrameRelay, it can be bigger if
configured to be so. Make it 2048 octets to have some
space available...
We now have a function that generates BSSGP PS and CS paging request.
It is called from the libgtp code when we receive a GTP packet from
the GGSN for a MM context that is in SUSPEND state. We then issue
a PS paging request to the Cell with the BVCI where the last RA update
was being performed.
TODO: We still don't enqueue the GTP packet (and transmit it on paging
complete), and we don't rate-limit the paging requests, i.e. every GTP packet
will trigger another paging request.
We probably also need some kind of logic that marks the phone as UNREGISTERED
if it doesn't respond to paging requests for some time.
When we send a downlink unit-data request via BSSGP, there is a lot
of information that needs to be copied from the mm context, such as
the IMSI, DRX parametes, MS radio access parameters, ...
This is a quite strange layering violation, since we now need to pass
a pointer to the MM ctx from GMM through LLC into BSSGP :(
Change gprs_nsvc_reset to return void instead of a int
as the gb_proxy.c currently ignores the reutnr value anyway.
Change the caller inside gprs_ns to return the newly allocated
nsvc instead of the return of gprs_nsvc_reset.
So far, we only started the ALIVE procedure on RESET-ACK if the
remote end was the SGSN. This resulted in the BSS->Proxy connections
only being tested for alive-status from the BSS side, but not from
our side.
Also: export nsvc_by_nsvci() function as a public API function.
Some BSS that connect to the proxy do not continue to perform the
RESET procedure after a timeout. In order to resurrect them, we
simply start a RESET procedure.
In the previous code we used a static fake_nsvc structure in
case we needed to send a message to an unknown NSVC for which
we don't have a real 'struct nsvc'. However, since we now have
a rate_ctr_group hanging off the nsvc, the fake structure didn't
have that.
So now we keep a nsi->unknown_nsvc around to be used whenever
we need a nsvc but don't have a real one. The gprs_ns_vty.c
code explicitly does not list that NSVC in 'show ns'
Every NS-VC now has a set of counters for incoming and outgoing
number of packets and bytes.
We also split the VTY part of the gprs_ns.c implementation into gprs_ns_vty.c
to make sure the protocol can actually be used without the VTY code being
present.
With persistent NS-VC configuration (configured through VTY),
we can respond properly to BSS with a somewhat strange NS
implementation Such as the BSplus. It enables us to respond
with a proper NS-RESET (including NSVCI/NSEI) when receiving
a NS-ALIVE or other PDU for a BLOCKED/DEAD NS-VC after our
end of the connection is rebooted.
In order to reuse the existing bssgp_tx_* functions without pulling
in the dependencies of gprs_bssgp.c, we have to move those functions
to gprs_bssgp_util.c
Furthermore, we can remove gbprox_nsi and replace it with bssgp_nsi,
and we can do proper processing of BVC-RESET messages coming from
the SGSN on the signalling BVC. In that case we need to send RESET
messages to all the BSS.
BSSGP stores a pointer to the Cell Identifier IE in msgb->cb, which
is later used by the GMM layer to identify the cell that has sent a
given message.
This now also means that the gsm_04_08_gprs.c code is free of any
legacy references to msg->trx or struct gsm_bts.
We now expect the highest level (actual SGSN GMM code) to know
all identifiers for every element in the protocol stack, i.e.
TLLI, SAPI, BVCI and NSEI. The layer-inetrnal state is looked
up based on those identifiers.
The reason for this is to ensure only the highest level state
needs to be persistent, while everything else can be regenerated
dynamically (e.g. in a SGSN restart)
The ida of the Gb proxy is to aggregate Gb links with a number of BSS
and then present all the BSSGP-VC's together inside one NS-VC to the
actual SGSN.
The code is not yet expected to be complete.
Harald Welte
Daniel Willmann