[asterisk-ss7] Internal protocol analyzer

[Kristian Nielsen]

"Tim Danner" <tdanner at pacwest.com> writes:

> Just a question for this list.  Has there been any development work here for
> an internal protocol analyzer for either ISDN or SS7?

In chan_ss7, you can use the command "ss7 dump start ..." to send protocol
data to a file, and then use ethereal (now renamed to wireshark) to analyze
it.

For details, see

 http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+ss7+commands

> My thoughts here are that something like that could be developed against the
> card drivers for both transmit and receive, and relay to a process just for
> decoding the packets.  I am also aware that this could be more processor
> intensive, but could be developed many different ways so not to scan
> everything, except for what needs to be decoded.  I think this would help
> out a faster turn around of any signaling issues.  Not everyone can afford
> expensive external analyzers.

 - Kristian.