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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] gprs

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:12:48 +0200 (EET)

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> On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:14 PM, wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to get the information from a gprs connection with
>> wireshark?
>
> That depends on what you mean by "the information from a GPRS connection".
>
> If you just want to capture IP-over-PPP traffic over GPRS, on a machine
> with a GPRS modem/mobile phone, and just see the traffic to and from your
> machine, that should Just Work on various UN*Xes - you'll just see PPP
> traffic.
>
> If, however, you want to see the lower-level GPRS messages, or want to see
> traffic between an arbitrary mobile phone and the base station, you might
> have to use something such as the AirProbe project:
>
> 	https://svn.berlin.ccc.de/projects/airprobe

I have a gps device which sends some messages over gprs to a server. These
messages contains the gps data like lat/lon and speed and things like this
and I would like to get this data.
So is this possible with wireshark or I have to use the airprobe?