German podcast featuring OpenBSC hacker Dieter Spaar
The German podcast Kuechenradio has released Episode 297: Hacker im Wald, covering OpenBSC founding member Dieter Spaar and his activities regarding GSM, UMTS and TETRA security research.
Added by laforge almost 13 years ago
The German podcast Kuechenradio has released Episode 297: Hacker im Wald, covering OpenBSC founding member Dieter Spaar and his activities regarding GSM, UMTS and TETRA security research.
Added by laforge about 13 years ago
We haven't had a functioning commit log mailinglist since mid-2009, when the revision control system of openbsc was converted from svn to git.
Especially today, with the large number of separate git repositories on http://cgit.osmocom.org/, it is very easy to loose track of what other developers are doing.
The new mailing list 'osmocom-commitlog' (renamed from openbsc-commits) will receive updates from all repositories on git.osmocom.org.
Feel free to subscribe at http://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/osmocom-commitlog
Added by laforge about 13 years ago
We're sorry to report that there are some problems with our git repositories at the moment, resulting in 'early EOF / index-pack failed' messages when users are attempting to clone one of our repositories.
The problem has been thoroughly analyzed, but even after many hours of analysis, no solution has been found yet. Your best chance is to keep re-trying the clone, in 5-10% of the cases it will succeed.
More technical details are available at this posting to the git mailing list:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169909
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Added by laforge about 13 years ago
Today I've been working on adding support for logging via syslog and to dedicated log files into our libosmocore and libosmovty libraries.
This means you can now finally log not only to stderr of the running process, but also configure any number of log files (each with its own log categories/levels) and through syslog.
In addition, all of the settings can now be configured from the vty (and persistently in the configuration file). You can also re-configure the log levels for those files (and stderr!) at runtime.
Please see the following new commands on the vty:
log file FILENAME log syslog log stderr no log (syslog|stderr) no log file FILENAME
The abovementioned logging support is immediately available to all Osmocom programs, including osmo-nitb, osmo-bsc, gb_proxy, osmo-sgsn, bsc_nat and many others.
Added by laforge over 13 years ago
Today, I have moved the remaining projects on git://openbsc.osmocom.org/
(aka git://bs11-abis.gnumonks.org/
) to the central git://git.osmocom.org/
location.
This helps us to consolidate all our git repositories on one server.
The git URL of the main OpenBSC repository has changed from
git://bs11-abis.gnumonks.org/openbsc.git (read-only) gitosis@bs11-abis.gnumonks.org:openbsc.git (write)
git://git.osmocom.org/openbsc.git (read-only) gitosis@git.osmocom.org:openbsc.git (write)
In order to update your local repository with the new URL, simply use the git remote set-url
command, like in the following examples.
for those of you with read-only access:
git remote set-url origin git://git.osmocom.org/openbsc.git
git remote set-url origin gitosis@git.osmocom.org:openbsc.git
The other two repositories that have changed in similar way are openggsn.git
and chan_openbsc.git
.
Added by laforge over 13 years ago
Today, the OpenBSC project announces a licensing change from GPLv2+ to AGPLv3+.
The reasoning behind this license change is simple: OpenBSC is developed as Free Software in a collaborative, community-driven process. Anyone running a GSM network using OpenBSC should be mandated to release any modifications to the OpenBSC codebase to the general public - even if the actual OpenBSC software is never distributed in the sense of the GPLv2/GPLv3.
From our point of view, the AGPL makes much more sense for software used to operate communications networks than the plain GPL. Other projects like OpenBTS have already adopted AGPLv3 in the past, following the same rationale.
For more details about the AGPL, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
If you want to use OpenBSC to operate a network and are unsure about licensing issues, please contact laforge@gnumonks.org
Added by laforge over 13 years ago
The OpenBSC field test at the 27th annual Chaos Communication Congress was a huge sucess. While a full report is still being prepared, statistics from the OpenBSC-based GSM network at the event can be found at FieldTests_27c3
Lots of bugs have been discovered and fixed under the high load conditions at the event. Not all of them are part of the master branch in the git repository yet, but they will all be there soon.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: This page contains information about a legacy version of the Osmocom software. This legacy version is no longer maintained. If you use it, don't be surprised if it doesn't work. It was your choice to ignore man-years worth of developments, improvements and fixes. Please migrate to the active/supported software (Osmocom CNI, consisting of OsmoBSC, OsmoMSC, OsmoHLR, OsmoSTP, OsmoMGW - a NITB style setup is described at Osmocom_Network_In_The_Box).