OSMOPCU(1)

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version 1.5.1 · 2 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

OsmoPCU — bestie edition, aka osmo-pcu 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so listen. A PCU (that's Packet Control Unit, keep up 🫶) is one of the two GPRS elements chillin' inside the BSS. It's the one holding down the RLC and MAC layers of the GPRS Um (radio) interface on the MS-facing side, and also the Gb Interface (NS, BSSGP) on the SGSN-facing side. Like, it's literally the social butterfly of the BSS, translating between the radio girlies and the SGSN girlies. 💅

OsmoPCU is the Osmocom implementation of this PCU functionality. Slay. 👑

https://osmocom.org/projects/osmopcu/wiki/OsmoPCU

✨ OPTIONS ✨

So many flags, so little time. Every single one of them, no skips, we don't do that here 🫶

  • -h, --help — prints this text, aka the "help me bestie" button 🙈
  • -c, --config-file — say which filename the config file lives at
  • -m, --mcc MCC — use the MCC you hand it instead of whatever value the BTS was gonna provide
  • -n, --mnc MNC — same energy, but for MNC: use the given MNC instead of the BTS-provided one
  • -V, --version — prints the version, iconic
  • -D, --daemonize — forks the process off into a background daemon, main character exits the group chat 🦋

🌈 VTY reference generation 🎀

  • --vty-ref-mode MODE — VTY reference generation mode (like, for example, 'expert').
  • --vty-ref-xml — generates the VTY reference XML output and then exits. That's it, that's the whole thing.

Copyright © 2012-2013 by Ivan Kluchnikov and Andreas Eversberg Copyright © 2013-2022 by sysmocom - s.f.m.c. GmbH — License GNU GPL version 2 or later

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. (Read that again, bestie, no warranty is not a vibe, it's a legal fact 📜)

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

The sacred texts, if you will:

The full documentation for OsmoPCU is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and OsmoPCU programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info OsmoPCU

should give you access to the complete manual. iykyk 💫

okay that's the whole page babes, this was OsmoPCU version 1.5.1, dated January 2026 — go forth and PCU responsibly, mwah 🎀💖✨

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