commit | abc6dd83bc27da426f463919567784a44ed99fa7 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> | Fri Jul 21 18:12:01 2017 +0200 |
committer | Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> | Fri Jul 21 18:42:22 2017 +0200 |
tree | dfbccba8f19579160086ab20c14d5e499bd956cd | |
parent | 5f071cd2c6af6c840d5ecac8e8474067fdc5738c [diff] |
Add support for generating IPIP to osmo-pcap-client This allows the user to change the configuration between either using a) the classic OsmoPCAP protocol (over TCP with or without TLS) which is used when you want to talk to an osmo-pcap-server b) the (new) IPIP encapsulation, which will simply take the IP packet (without Ethernet or pcap header) and transmit it inside IPIP to the specified server IP address. This is useful for gettin real-time streaming into wireshark. Change-Id: I8056fc163ac2f15adcb964d867dd5e51df4e4710
osmo-pcap has been created to collect network traces at different nodes but store them centrally at a dedicated note for further analysis. This might be needed for auditing, resolving conflicts, post processing or debugging a distributed system.
The system consists out of the osmo-pcap-client to cpature traffic at a host and osmo-pcap-server to receive the traffic, store and rotate the traffic at a centralized server. There is a shell script to compress and expire old traces.
The osmo-pcap-client is using libpcap and has a built-in detector for the GPRS-NS/BSSGP protocol to exclude user traffic. The client is known to work on 32/64 bit systems. It can be configured through the VTY and the minimal config includes the interface to monitor, the pcap filter to use and the server to send it to.
The osmo-pcap-server will listen for new TCP connections and then will receive the data from the client if it is coming from a known/good source IPv4/port. The server is configured to write one file per client and to change/rotate the file when the link encapsulation is changing. It can be configured to rotate the file a given time interval and/or if the filesize is over a threshold.
The osmo-pcap-server comes with a shell script to rotate and compress old traces. Currently the configuration parameters (age or amount based) need to be tuned in the script itself.
There are Debian, Ubuntu, SLES, OpenSUSE and CentOS packages available via the excellent openSUSE Build Service.
Please see the contrib/osmo-pcap-server.cfg and contrib/osmo-pcap-client.cfg file in the repository
osmo-pcap has been created by Holger Hans Peter Freyther (holger@freyther.de) and is licensed as AGPLv3+. The author appreciates failure or success reports of using the software.