Re: [PATCH 1/1] gtp: support SGSN-side tunnels

Hi Pablo,

On 02/06/2017 12:08 PM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

Hi Jonas,

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:12:31AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote:

quoted

The GTP-tunnel driver is explicitly GGSN-side as it searches for PDP
contexts based on the incoming packets _destination_ address.  If we
want to write an SGSN, then we want to be idenityfing PDP contexts
based on _source_ address.

This patch adds a "flags" argument at GTP-link creation time to specify
whether we are on the GGSN or SGSN side of the tunnel; this flag is then
used to determine which part of the IP packet to use in determining
the PDP context.

So far the implementation that I saw in osmocom relies on userspace code
to tunnel data from ME to the SSGN/SGW running on the base station.

The data we get from GGSN -> SGSN needs to be places into a SN-PDU (via
SNDCP) when sending it to the BTS, right? So I wonder how this can be
useful given that we would need to see real IP packets coming to the
SSGN that we tunnel into GTP.

Fair enough.  The use-case I am looking at involves PGW load-testing 
where the simulated load is generated locally on the SGSN so it _is_ 
seeing IP packets and the SNDCP is left out altogether.  Perhaps this is 
too pathological to warrant messing with the upstream driver... I don't 
know: the symmetry does not cost much even if it's of limited use.

Couldn't the SNDCP theoretically be a separate node and push IP packets 
to the SGSN, thus making this useful?  Perhaps it's a stretch...

/Jonas