[asterisk-ss7] pointcode high bits cut off

Domjan Attila adomjan at tvnet.hu
Tue Nov 25 13:44:25 CST 2008


Hi,

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:17 +0200, Kaloyan Kovachev wrote:
> Hello,
>  while testing ss7 - setting the pointcodes to 1000000 and respectively
> 1000001 on both sides of a ss7 link i got the folowing error message:
>  ERROR[1919]: chan_dahdi.c:10062 dahdi_ss7_error: Received message destined
> for point code 0x240 but we're 0xf4240.  Dropping
>
>  it looks like the high bits are not sent properly ?!? 1000001 is less than
> 24bits so it is a correct point code, but on the receiving side the high bits
> are cut off.
> 
the itu point code is 14bits long, the ansi is 16bits long

>  few questions while looking at the code (ss7_internal.h) the number of ss7
> links is limited to 4 - is there a specific reason for this limit?
You can increase it, btw the big telcos connect they busy switches
typically 2 signalling links to their STPs, so I think the 4 should be
enough.

>  and the second one - ISUP_L1PROT_G711ULAW 0x02 is defined (couldn't find
> where it is used), but there is no G711ALAW definition, does it mean it can't
> be used?
not used

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