Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] not able to decode TCAP/GSM_MAP/GSM_SMS protocol layers

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:51:07 -0400
Zak, Pavel wrote:
Hi,

I currently have wireshark 1.2.9 and I�m not able to decode M3UA traffic exchanged between SMSC and STP. Decoding ends up on ETH/IP/SCTP/M3UA/SCCP layer and the rest is non decoded raw data.

Could anyone tell me what�s wrong in the traffic? Please see HTML output bellow (left side correctly decoded, right side incorrectly).

The message on the right has no SSNs in the SCCP Called/Calling addresses. Wireshark uses the SSN to know that the message is TCAP (as opposed to some other upper-layer protocol).

I suppose that if this is really a problem SCCP could have a preference for a "default" upper layer protocol if none is found via SSNs.