Hi Harald, On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 08:10:38PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote: > I've modified the patch slightly, see below (compile-tested, but not > otherwise tested yet). Basically rename the flags attribute to 'role', > expand the commit log and removed unrelated cosmetic changes. > > I've also prepared a corresponding change to libgtpnl into the > laforge/sgsn-rol branch, see > http://git.osmocom.org/libgtpnl/commit/?h=laforge/sgsn-role > > This is not yet tested in any way, but I'm planning to add some > associated support to the command line tools and then give it some > testing (both against the kernel GTP in GGSN mode, as well as an > independent userspace GTP implementation).
Thanks Harald. > > It would be good if we provide a way to configure GTP via iproute2 for > > testing purposes. > > I don't really care about which tool is used, as long as it is easily > available [and FOSS, of course]. > > > We would need to create some dummy socket from > > kernel too though so we don't need any userspace daemon for this > > testing mode. > > I don't really like that latter idea. It sounds too much like a hack to > me. But then, I don't have enough phantasy right now ti imagine how an > actual implementation would look like. It's not that far away, we can just create the udp socket from kernelspace via udp_sock_create() in the test mode. So we don't need to pass the file descriptor from userspace. But not asking you to work on this, just an idea. > To me, it is perfectly fine to run a simple, small utility in userspace > even for testing. No problem.
