Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] [Announce] SS7 monitoring hardware now available for Ethereal

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jacques, Olivier (OCBU-Test Infra) wrote:

> A versatile SS7 monitoring solution based on E1/T1/J1 PCMCIA and PCI 
> boards is now available for winpcap/libpcap based monitoring 
> applications running on Windows NT/2000/XP - like Ethereal for Windows!
> This allows doing a live non-intrusive monitoring of E1/T1/J1 links with 
> SS7 signalling.

Thanks.

I've moved the Wiki description of this from the SS7 page to a new 
CaptureSetup/SS7 page, and put information on some other mechanisms for 
SS7 capture there as well.  You might want to expand the item there with 
more details (see the Discussion section).

> This monitoring solution may be extended per request to include support 
> for ISDN PRA protocols like ISDN, LAPD, LAPB and Q.931.

ISDN would probably require a new DLT_ type for ISDN; if you plan to do 
that, ask tcpdump-workers@xxxxxxxxxxx for the new DLT_ type (you should 
join the list before sending - it's a low-volume list).