[Freeswitch-users] pcapsipdump

Nathan Neulinger nneul at mst.edu
Thu Apr 16 03:10:31 MSD 2015


Right, that's why I mentioned just using the capture engine. Only the web UI has any license requirement. Even without 
the UI, you can do quite a bit with just the raw tables and the generated capture files that it separates by call/etc.

-- Nathan

On 04/15/2015 06:02 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:
> They have a per-port licencing model, however, which is unduly restrictive for certain kinds of users.
>
> One is users who need captures for purely diagnostic purposes and otherwise realise little bottom-line value from them. Another ‎are short-duration traffic movers who realise little revenue relative to a high concurrent channel count, due to low ASRs.
>
> It's a great product, but not for everyone.
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> Have you looked at using voipmonitor? The capture part is open source / GPL, and seems to do a nice job with captures.
> The pretty UI is non-free, but the capture engine is useful by itself.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/voipmonitor/
>
> -- Nathan
>
> On 04/15/2015 05:39 PM, Brian West wrote:
>> Thats easy to fix, you filter each part into its own file in order then pcapmerge the end result.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com <mailto:abalashov at evaristesys.com>> wrote:
>>
>> In my experience, the major problem with this is dealing with calls that span capture chunks.
>>
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>> Sent from my BlackBerry.
>> *From: *Brian West
>> *Sent: *Wednesday, April 15, 2015 18:29
>> *To: *FreeSWITCH Users Help
>> *Reply To: *FreeSWITCH Users Help
>> *Subject: *Re: [Freeswitch-users] pcapsipdump
>>
>>
>> Yep, That with XML CDR, you can build a time frame and only look in files that were created within the start / end
>> of the call, there by saving yourself a little bit of time while extracting the data.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com <mailto:abalashov at evaristesys.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/15/2015 06:13 PM, Brian West wrote:
>>
>>> To solve this, you could run a big ring buffer, load mod_xml_cdr, then
>>> build a wireshark filter out of that data and process the ring buffer,
>>> i've done this before and it works quite well.
>>
>> By ring buffer, do you mean a large amount of tcpdump capture rotations,
>> including options like -C and -W?
>>
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Nathan Neulinger                       nneul at mst.edu
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