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DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET

acer z200 (andoid 4.4.2) - needed manual disabling and enabling of 'data' to work

samsung S6 Edge - needed some disable-enable on data connections

apple iphone - gets an ip (ping-able from bts) but browsing in safari does not work

I think this is a great idea, as much as it is time consuming and well... manual.

However, I think that better than testing "browsing" on mobile browser with a result set of [works|does not work], it would be better to place an extremely restrictive firewall on the ggsn and intercept and answer NXDOMAIN for all DNS requests but a select few you will use for testing and then do something a little more controlled, like a simple ping test, opening a local LAN "web page" or connecting an XMPP client to a local server or some such.

My reasoning behind this is that most phones are probably going to saturate the capacity of the link as soon as they get an IP address with call home requests, cloud service logins, weather, app update checks and whatever.

I'm almost loathe to mention it, but to go beyond ping tests and test something a little more real world, telegram messenger gives a pretty good visual feedback of the status of the connection, and is a reasonably "easy" way to create MS or Network side traffic to initiate TBFs. Telegram has a small set of known IPs that you can allow in order for service to work quickly.

All these test runs are pretty old, and osmo-pcu has evolved quite a lot since then. I'm inclined to close this ticket in the following weeks if nobody disagrees.