On Aug 16, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Storer, Darren wrote: > We?don't have a live SS7 link in the office but I do have an Inet > Spectra SS7 simulator/emulator with ISUP. It has been used to debug > other SS7 stacks on commercial SoftSwitch/NIVR platforms with great > success. It can generate calls and inject maintenance > messages/deliberate errors etc. The Spectra supports up to four SS7 > signalling links and multiple point codes. With a bit of fiddling the > Spectra can be used remotely but you have to use a DOS based client; I > don't have the Unix version of the remote client application. > ? > For independent verification of the signalling conversations "on the > wire" we also have a GN Nettest MPA (Multi?Protocol Analyser) with > ISUP. This device will also spot transmission errors when performing > long duration tests. (There's nothing like an idle SS7 link,? > generating lots of FISUs to really find out if a?link is stable) > ? > The bad news is the I only have an old single E1 card in our test > system and the brief loan of a more modern dual E1 card (both Digium). > Can these cards be used to run chan_ss7 or do I have to obtain a TE4XX > card? Our model system uses SuSE 9.2, does that present any problems? > ? No, it should work with any of those cards. SuSE also should work just fine. I actually got it up and running on a switch today that Luciano Ramos from the list let me try. I found a small bug that I had introduced in the IAM parsing code when I was adding ANSI support, but I fixed it tonight and calls should work just fine now. Matthew Fredrickson
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