Re: [Ethereal-users] Specifying a range or filter for "decode as"

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Sure there's an easy way. Go to the protocol preferences of the RTP
dissector and tick the box "Try to decode RTP outside of conversations".

Thanx,
Jaap


On Wed, 3 May 2006, Sean Walberg wrote:

> I'm using Ethereal to analyze RTP streams sent between Avaya PBXes.  Upon
> viewing the capture file, it is not recognized as RTP which is
> understandable.  I'm able to right click and assign RTP to the port and get
> my analysis that way, but dealing with a million packets or so takes an
> absurd amount of time to do since Ethereal reprocesses all the packets every
> time I set up one session, and there are many sessions to do.
>
> The signalling protocol is proprietary, so Ethereal doesn't have the chance
> to figure out that the packets are supposed to be RTP by looking at the
> signalling.  I'm able to filter enough that everything on my screen I see
> should be RTP, but is there a more efficient way of telling Ethereal to
> decode everything as RTP, or to provide a range of UDP ports to decode as
> RTP?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
>
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