Vivek Mangala wrote:
> I have a query. There are PCMCIA cards available in market that I can
> install in my laptop/notebook and can start monitoring SS7 E1/T1 links.
>
> I love using ethereal as a protocol dissector. So, I would request you
> to help me locate the PCMCIA vendor on whose card ethereal can be
> integrated....
>
> I mean I would like to install a PCMCIA card for SS7 monitoring in my
> laptop which ethereal can detect and show in its list of network
> interfaces and I can just select it and start collecting and analyzing
> ss7 traces from network.
Ethereal can handle those cards supported by libpcap (it relies on
libpcap/WinPcap for packet capture services); currently, the only cards
supported are the ones listed at
http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup/SS7
with the corresponding OSes and versions of libpcap (e.g., the Utel cards
apparently require Windows and a patched version of WinPcap; SS7 with the
DAG cards requires Linux or possibly FreeBSD and a sufficiently recent
version of libpcap, although WinPcap could probably be made to support it
as well; the Intel NetStructure and Septel cards require Linux and a
sufficiently recent version of libpcap).
Support for other cards would have to come from the vendor or from
somebody with access to vendor software and time to write support in
libpcap/WinPcap for the card.
What are some of the cards that are available?
