Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] rtp dynamic payloads

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From: Ed Warnicke <hagbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05 Jan 2002 18:01:45 -0500
Fransisco,
	I am currently mulling over how best to 
arrange to dynamically identify UDP traffic as 
RTP, given that many mechanisms that use SDP to 
describe their sessions actually use lower level
protocols ( like MGCP ) to signal whether we are setting up, tearing
down, or modifying a connection.  My primary current interest is 
in dynamically identifying the RTP streams associated with 
various VoIP protocols ( MGCP, and to a lesser degree SIP ), but 
I would be very interested in working with you on meeting your 
needs as well, since what you are proposing sounds interesting to
me.  Could you be a little more specific about what you 
are trying to acheive?  Are you talking about using 
the rtp-map media attributes from SDP to define these 'dynamic' rtp
payload types?  

Ed
On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 15:02, Francisco Javier Cabello wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to add ethereal knowing about rtp dynamic payloads.
> I don't know so much about ethereal architecture, because of that I need some 
> help to implement this feature.  
> I'll try to explain the problem. RTP defines a number for each payload which 
> is coded in the RTP header. Ethereal reads this payload number from rtp 
> header and call to one of the RTP dissectors which have been registered. The 
> problem is when payload number is a 'dynamic payload', in these cases, we 
> don't know which is the format packetized in the RTP packets, and because of 
> that we don't know which dissector have to call. To know it, we need search 
> in the SDP information.  One of the solution could be: 
> In packet-rtp.c, when we have to dissect rtp packet and I see that it's a 
> dynamic payload rtp packet, we could ask to 'SDP' module about the last
> RTSP/SDP negotiation, and there, look for information which is coded as a 
> 'Media attribute field'.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 	Francisco J. Cabello.
> 
> 
> 
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