Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] QSIG Support

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:28:31 +0100 (CET)
Here you go:

http://www.ecma-international.org/activities/Communications/N-PISN.htm

Thanx,
Jaap

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, John Neiberger wrote:

> Q.SIG is not the same as Q.931. Although they are related, Q.SIG and
> Q.931 have a number of differences. However, they may be close enough
> that, as you mention, the current Q.931 dissector might handle the
> decoding. I would be worried that without specific Q.SIG support we'd
> be missing all of the Q.SIG Supplementary Services.
>
> I'll see what I can dig up about the protocol. I know that the
> specifications are on the ECMA website. I'll try to find the relevant
> data and post it (or the links) to the list and/or the Wiki.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On 3/13/06, LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > AFAIK Q.SIG is Q.931 + some parameters and should be supported by the
> > current q931 dissector.
> >
> > On 3/13/06, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > John Neiberger wrote:
> > > > I would really love to see support for Q.SIG in Ethereal and I didn't
> > > > see it on the current wish list. The Wiki page said to check here
> > > > before adding anything to the wish list, so I'm checking.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Congratulation! You're the first one I know that actually follow the
> > > "official" process :-)
> > >
> > > This is just to prevent invalid and/or duplicate entries.
> > >
> > > I don't know anything about Q.SIG, you may just add it to the WishList.
> > > > As an FYI, my company is about to roll out a fairly large IP telephony
> > > > project that will involve a lot of Q.SIG interaction. It would be
> > > > extremely helpful to be able to span that traffic over to Ethereal for
> > > > analysis
> > > You may start a new Wiki page about this protocol and include a trace
> > > file and the protocol specs, making it much more likely that it will be
> > > implemented.
> > >
> > > However, there are no guarantees that it actually will be implemented at
> > > all, until you do the job yourself or find someone to do it.
> > >
> > > Regards, ULFL
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