There was a problem with several UEs in the wireshark log. It seems that
wireshark needs the UE id otherwise it gets confused and sees retransmissions
where it's just another UE connecting and doing the same as a previous
UE.
Let's put kind of a UE id. Each RNTI seen by macpdu2wireshark gets an UE id
assigned the first time it's seen in a trace.
This is a bit hackish but seems to be fine.
We could have added UE_id in all the traces, that is change the T() calls
in the softmodem. It was less work to do it as it is, ie. only touch
macpdu2wireshark.c.
The RAR uses the same UE id all the time, may be a problem. To be refined
if needed.
The T tracer macpdu2wireshark has been modified to handle the new traces.
The usage is the same as for LTE.
In NR the RACH is logged as an LTE RACH. Maybe we'll change that in the
future. Looking at the source code of wireshark, I could not find any
way to report NR RACH. Maybe they forgot it. Or I did not search correctly...
To be used when you send data to another host.
On the other host, to avoid ICMP traffic about the port
not being open, do:
./nc -l -u -p 9999 > /dev/null
You need to restart this command each time you run macpdu2wireshark.
You can use any other program that will accept UDP packets on the
port 9999 (default port of macpdu2wireshark, change if you use another
port of course).
A new option -live has been added to run live (ie. like the 'enb' tracer)
and options -live-ip and -live-port to select IP/port of the machine running
the eNodeB.
Some new options to control MIB and SIBs recording have been added.
Some global variables have been removed.
The tracer macpdu2wireshark can send MIBs to wireshark.
This can be disabled by passing the new -no-mib option.
openair1/SCHED/phy_procedures_lte_eNb.c has been modified
to have a new T trace with the MIB.
Whenever the value T_BUFFER_MAX changes, the tracers had to
be recompiled. The only reason why it was needed is because we
used some fixed size buffers to read events. This commit removes
this restriction.
Also, with the basic simulator, this value T_BUFFER_MAX now comes
with an #ifdef which would have required some special hackish-level
tricks in the tracers, which is not good.
Let's just allocate memory when needed.
This tracer takes the traces ENB_MAC_UE_DL_PDU_WITH_DATA
and ENB_MAC_UE_UL_PDU_WITH_DATA from a trace file
(as generated by the "record" tracer) and sends them
in UDP packets correctly formatted for wireshark to
dissect them.
One unresolved problem I face with my version of
wireshark (1.10.6) is that I don't get the frame number,
only subframe. See in the code to change the behavior
if you use a more recent version of wireshark.
You need to properly configure wireshark for it to work.
See $OPENAIR_DIR/openair2/UTIL/OPT/README.txt.
Cedric Roux