[VoiceOps] Splitting SIP+RTP PCAP files

Lee Riemer lriemer at bestline.net
Thu Jun 24 01:20:05 EDT 2010


Awesome.

On 6/23/2010 10:39 PM, Brooks Bridges wrote:
> To everyone that has contacted me about this application, I'm happy to 
> share with you that I have gotten approval from our CEO to release it 
> as a free app, however it will be restricted in some commercial uses 
> (e.g. you can't repackage it and sell it as a product, etc).
>
> Once I have it past the lawyers and their standard "if you install 
> this and it starts world war 3, it's not our fault" disclaimers that 
> will have to be added, I will make a point to get it set up somewhere 
> and post a link on this list and a couple others.
>
> Please be patient.  As we all know, lawyers like to take their time so 
> it appears that we're paying all that money for a reason. ;-)  Stay tuned!
>
> Brooks R. Bridges
> Telecommunications Manager
> Ifbyphone, Inc.
> Phone: (847) 983-3000
> Fax: (847) 676-6553
> bbridges at ifbyphone.com
> http://www.ifbyphone.com
>
>
> Brooks Bridges wrote:
>>
>> The utility was written by Alex as a replacement for pcapsipdump.  
>> pcapsipdump suffers from severe performance and stability problems 
>> with any appreciable traffic.
>>
>> I can vouch that Alex's utility is very stable and efficient, but I 
>> do have to take exception to the "inexpensive (read: basically 
>> free!)" statement, as the utility is wholly owned (as per 
>> work-for-hire agreement) by Ifbyphone, Inc.
>>
>> Please contact me off-list if you would like to discuss using the 
>> utility.  I do not believe there is an issue with us releasing the 
>> utility "free as in beer", however I am not the one that can 
>> authorize such a release.  I will have to confirm this with our upper 
>> management.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> /Brooks R. Bridges/
>>
>> /Telecommunications Manager/
>>
>> /Ifbyphone, Inc./
>>
>> /Phone: (847) 983-3000/
>>
>> /Fax: (847) 676-6553/
>>
>> /bbridges at ifbyphone.com/
>>
>> /http://www.ifbyphone.com/
>>
>> *From:* voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org 
>> [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] *On Behalf Of *Darren Schreiber
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:58 AM
>> *To:* Nicholas Sten; Kristian Kielhofner
>> *Cc:* voiceops at voiceops.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [VoiceOps] Splitting SIP+RTP PCAP files
>>
>> What's wrong with pcapsipdump? You can pipe input into that I believe... its an old tool but it still works. :-)
>>   
>> Nicholas Sten<nicksten at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   
>>
>> Kristian,
>>
>> Alex has an elegant and inexpensive (read: basically free!) solution 
>> that you might want to check out.  Here's a brief description (I've 
>> culled from a personal email, so I hope I don't misrepresent it)
>>
>> /So I wrote a highly parallelised, multithreaded tool that runs on 
>> such a "capture box" and listens to SIP traffic intelligently.  It 
>> automatically identifies the media ports involved in a call and 
>> records both SIP and RTP to distinct capture files in a dated 
>> directory hierarchy separated by day and hour.  The capture file 
>> contains the date, time, ANI, DNIS and Call-ID./
>>
>> You should give him a shout: Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com 
>> <mailto:abalashov at evaristesys.com>>
>>
>> I can vouch for the quality and effectiveness of his solutions.
>>
>> -N
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Kristian Kielhofner 
>> <kristian.kielhofner at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:kristian.kielhofner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>  Does anyone know of a tool to split PCAP files that is SIP+RTP
>> aware?  Ideally I'd be able to record a PCAP file with any number of
>> calls and then have a utility split that file into each separate call?
>>  I'm pretty sure I've seen a utility to do this, I just can't remember
>> the name...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Kristian Kielhofner
>> http://www.astlinux.org
>> http://blog.krisk.org
>> http://www.star2star.com
>> http://www.submityoursip.com
>> http://www.voalte.com
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