"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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