From 61ce5449265f4dd1209c90836a4b1e9a66219ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neels Hofmeyr Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 02:18:39 +0100 Subject: bsc: handover: clarify default of all-cells-are-neighbors Change-Id: I61f877c7a60419132bdd27c1b4e64150c0520751 --- OsmoBSC/chapters/handover.adoc | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/OsmoBSC/chapters/handover.adoc b/OsmoBSC/chapters/handover.adoc index 1120690..b763701 100644 --- a/OsmoBSC/chapters/handover.adoc +++ b/OsmoBSC/chapters/handover.adoc @@ -166,6 +166,22 @@ new `neighbor` configuration described below. | ✓ | ✓ | neighbor cgi 001 01 200 3 arfcn 123 bsic 1 |==== +==== Default: All Local Cells are Neighbors + +For historical reasons, the default behavior of OsmoBSC is to add all local-BSS cells as neighbors. To +maintain a backwards compatible configuration file format, this is still the case: as soon as no explicit +neighbor cell is configured with a `neighbor` command (either none was configured, or all configured +neighbors have been removed again), a cell automatically lists all of the local-BSS cells as neighbors. +These are implicit mappings in terms of the legacy neighbor configuration scheme, and re-using ARFCN+BSIC +combinations within a BSS will not work well this way. + +As soon as the first explicit neighbor relation is added to a cell, the legacy behavior is switched off, +and only explicit neighbors are in effect. + +NOTE: If a cell is required to not have any neighbors, it is recommended to rather switch off handover +for that cell with `handover 0`. An alternative solution is to set `neighbor-list mode manual` and not +configure any `neighbor-list` entries. + ==== Local-BSS Neighbors Local neighbors can be configured by just the local BTS number, or by LAC+CI, -- cgit v1.2.3