Re: [Ethereal-users] Support of SS7 protocol stack in ethereal

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:04:28PM -0800, rinchen tundup wrote:
> I m a newbie to ethereal . From the list of supported
> protocols I came to know that TCAP & MTP protocols are
> also supported.
> 
> So is SS7 supported ? 
> 
> If yes on which cards (interfaces)?

A varieth of Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, 802.11, etc. interfaces.

> I guess ethereal is for IP interfaces.

That depends on the OS.  It captures only on interfaces that
libpcap/WinPcap supports on the OS on which you're running it; that
usually means the sort of interfaces that could support IP, as opposed
to the sort of links typically used for SS7.

I.e., we don't support capturing on telco-style SS7 links.  We do
support capturing various SS7 protocols when run atop Internet transport
protocols such as SCTP.