[asterisk-ss7] Internal protocol analyzer

[Tim Danner]

Do you know if libss7 has the same capabilities?  But let's say we use these SS7/ISDN capable cards as a SS7 or ISDN protocol analyzer, no such development work there?  Digium, Sangoma?

Why ask for two or more, when you can try and get it all in one.

But this is also good to know about Wireshark.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kristian Nielsen [mailto:knielsen at mysql.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:19 PM
To: asterisk-ss7 at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-ss7] Internal protocol analyzer


"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.


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