Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] is it possible to capture the traffic on STM-1/E1 ?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:36:45 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:

Ethereal includes dissectors for NBAP and RANAP.  I don't know what
protocols in the W-CDMA protocol suite it doesn't handle.

I don't see any place where the NBAP dissector would be called, however,
so I don't know whether it will actually dissect any NBAP traffic.

It looks as if NBAP is transported over (among other things) ATM AAL5 - this screenshot from Radcom's network analyzer suggests that:

	http://www.protocols.com/pbook/ScreenCaptures/NBAP.gif

We currently have no provision for dissecting NBAP atop AAL5. Is there a standard VPI/VCI for NBAP? Or should we provide a mechanism for associating particular VPI/VCI pairs with particular protocols? Or should we have a heuristic dissector table for AAL5?