[c-nsp] IOS and Calea Feature Set

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Fri Oct 31 11:08:44 EDT 2008


Forrest,

I'm not an expert in this area but...

my understanding is Lawful Intercept (search Cisco.com for "lawful intercept)
is supposed to be the target solution for what you describe.

Rodney

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:10:40PM -0600, Forrest W Christian wrote:
> I'm working on improving my CALEA compliance here.   One of the big 
> things I need to handle is better extraction of frames out of several 
> cisco routers we have scattered around our network. 
> 
> Today, we handle our CALEA requests by using a span/mirroring port on a 
> switch plugged into a CALEA collection device which conforms to the 
> WISPA CALEA standard.   That way, we can capture all of the internet and 
> most of the on-network traffic, but not quite 100% since traffic which 
> never leaves the border router doesn't ever exit the border router so it 
> can't be captured for Law Enforcement.
> 
> It looks like the IP Traffic Export would allow me to basically use the 
> tools we already have in place for this.   But, I also am looking at the 
> CALEA features in the later IOS'es.   Unfortunately, the documentation 
> is written in CALEA-speak, which makes for confusing reading, especially 
> when you are trying to figure out what pieces you need to make this work.
> 
> I'm curious if someone on-list  has gotten the CALEA features to work in 
> a Broadband provider setting, and if so, if they could perhaps point me 
> in the right direction as far as what pieces we need (aka specific 
> products instead of "functions") other than the Cisco router w/CALEA 
> features?
> 
> -forrest
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