Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Dissect Sigtran capture files

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From: Andreas Fink <afink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:07:17 +0200

On 23.05.2006, at 12:31, dirk Bruyland wrote:

Hello Users,

I need to analyse M3UA and MTP3 protocol messages (specific messages , between 2 specific network elements) in ethereal SIGTRAN (IP/Ethernet) capture logfiles.

The ethereal display filter will only select large ( containing many disparate MTP3 messages) ethernet frames.

When I filter on "MTP3 msg xyz between node NE1 and NE2" (as specified by M3UA DPC), I get selected frames containing indeed the desired xyz  but also 95% other MTP3/M3UA/SCTP messages from all over the place I am not really interested in.


Sounds like your MTP3 link transports messages for other nodes?

-Has anybody encountered this SIGTRAN difficulty before?


I trace a lot on MTP3 but I've never seen that (but my links are based on M2PA, not M3UA and rarely have more than one MTP3 packet inside the SCTP packet).

-Is it possible to dissect the capture file (get rid of the ethernet frame structure) and produce a new cap file only containing standalone elementary messages, so that the ethereal display filter works and selects on these messages and not on the large frames ?


Then ethereal wouldn't display it anymore.
Can you give me an example of such a capture file?

Thanks in advance

Dirk

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