Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SS7 ISUP

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff_morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:06:48 -0400

Michael,


Do you get some software with the SS7 card which allows
you to capture traffic and write it to a disk file. We
could add support for reading such files to ethereal.
In fact the PCAP file format already supports storing MTP2 or MTP3 directly (LINKTYPE_RAWSS7_MTP2 and LINKTYPE_RAWSS7_MTP3 for libpcap users or WTAP_ENCAP_MTP2 and LINKTYPE_ENCAP_MTP3 for wiretap users). 


I did not know that this is the file format used by capture software
which comes with the cards Dimitar is talking about.
Ah, sorry--I misunderstood your point. I thought you were asking if such software could be written (not if such software came with the card). I meant that if one had to write such software, it would be easy to use the PCAP file format. 

Hopefully I'll get more sleep tommorrow night ;-).