commit | 55f12b8e38a983fc9fe98195ff1c1d74b58e9f9b | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org> | Sun Jan 16 14:34:12 2022 +0100 |
committer | Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org> | Sun Jan 16 14:35:25 2022 +0100 |
tree | 0476c1c44a5663dcad445d2a1a9dad7371333b51 | |
parent | 0c832fe7372d716d5133d4b7dbf96da6fc8d8ad5 [diff] |
Fix client_id/bank_id/slot_nr range in manual + --help output The RSPRO.asn protocol defines the ranges 0..1023 for slot, bank and client IDs. Don't make misleading claims in manual and/or help messages. Change-Id: Id383b2bea4c014e7b61ae02e7062ba4db5c2dc20
This software suite is a work in progress.
The client interfaces with GSM phones / modems via dedicated "Card Emulation" devices such as the Osmocom SIMtrace2 or sysmocom sysmoQMOD board + firmware. This hardware implements the ISO7816-3 electrical interface and protocol handling and passes any TPDU headers received from the phone/modem to osmo-remsim-client for further processing of the TPDUs associated to the given APDU transfer.
osmo-remsim-client connects via a RSPRO control connection to osmo-remsim-server at startup and registers itself. It will receive configuration data such as the osmo-remsim-bankd IP+Port and the ClientId from osmo-remsim-server.
After receiving the configuration, osmo-remsim-client will establish a RSPRO data connection to the osmo-remsim-bankd IP:Port.
As the USB interface for remote SIM in simtrace2.git uses one interface per slot, we can implement the client in blocking mode, i.e. use blocking I/O on the TCP/RSPRO side. This simplifies the code compared to a more complex async implementation.
The osmo-remsim-bankd (SIM Bank Daemon) manages one given SIM bank. The initial implementation supports a PC/SC driver to expose any PC/SC compatible card readers as SIM bank.
osmo-remsim-bankd initially connects via a RSPRO control connection to osmo-remsim-server at startup, and will in turn receive a set of initial [client,slot]:[bankd,slot] mappings. These mappings determine which slot on the client (corresponding to a modem) is mapped to which slot on the SIM bank. Mappings can be updated by osmo-remsim-server at any given point in time.
osmo-remsim-bankd implements a RSPRO server, where it listens to connections from osmo-remsim-clients.
As PC/SC only offers a blocking API, there is one thread per PC/SC slot. This thread will perform blocking I/O on the socket towards the client, and blocking API calls on PC/SC.
In terms of thread handling, we do:
The worker threads initially don't have any mapping to a specific reader, and that mapping is only established at a later point after the client has identified itself. The advantage is that the entire bankd can live without any non-blocking I/O.
The main thread handles the connection to osmo-remsim-server, where it can also use non-blocking I/O. However, re-connection would be required, to avoid stalling all banks/cards in the event of a connection loss to the server.
worker threads have the following states:
Once the client disconnects, or any other error occurs (such as card I/O errors), the worker thread either returns to INIT state (closing client socket and reader), or it terminates. Termination would mean that the main thread would have to do non-blocking join to detect client termination and then re-spawn clients, so the "return to INIT state" approach seems to make more sense.
Open topics: