ISDNTRACE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual ISDNTRACE(8)
isdntrace - isdn4bsd ISDN protocol trace utility
isdntrace [-a] [-b] [-d] [-f filename] [-h] [-i] [-l] [-n number] [-o]
[-p filename] [-r] [-u number] [-x] [-B] [-F] [-P] [-R unit]
[-T unit]
isdntrace is part of the isdn4bsd package and is used to provide the user
with a mnemonic display of the layers 1, 2 and 3 protocol activities on
the D channel and hex dump of the B channel(s) activities.
Together with two passive supported cards and an easy to build cable it
can also be used to monitor the complete traffic on a S0 bus providing S0
bus analyzer features.
The isdntrace utility is only available for passive supported cards.
Note
All filenames, user specified or default, get a date and time stamp
string added in the form -yymmdd-hhmmss: a hyphen, two digits year,
month, day, a hyphen and two digits hour, minutes and seconds. Trace
files no longer get overwritten. In case a new filename is needed within
a second, the filename-generating mechanism sleeps one second.
In case the program is sent a USR1 signal, a new user specified or de-
fault filename with a new date and time stamp is generated and opened.
The following options can be used:
-a Run isdntrace in analyzer mode by using two passive cards and a
custom cable which can be build as described in the file
cable.txt in the isdn4bsd source distribution. One card acts as a
receiver for the transmitting direction on the S0 bus while the
other card acts as a receiver for the receiving direction on the
S0 bus. Complete traffic monitoring is possible using this setup.
-b switch B channel tracing on (default off).
-d switch D channel tracing off (default on).
-f Use filename as the name of a file into which to write tracing
output (default filename is isdntrace<n> where n is the number of
the unit to trace).
-h switch display of header off (default on).
-i print layer 1 (I.430) INFO signals to monitor layer 1 activity
(default off).
-l switch displaying of Layer 2 (Q.921) frames off (default on).
-n This option takes a numeric argument specifying the minimum frame
size in octets a frame must have to be displayed. (default 0)
-o switch off writing trace output to a file (default on).
-p Use filename as the name of a file used for the -B and -P options
(default filename is isdntracebin<n> where n is the number of the
unit to trace).
-r Switch off printing a raw hexadecimal dump of the packets preced-
ing the decoded protocol information (default on).
-u Use number as the unit number of the controller card to trace
(default 0).
-x Switch on printing of packets with a non-Q.931 protocol discrimi-
nator. (default off).
-B Write undecoded binary trace data to a file for later or remote
analyzing (default off).
-F This option can only be used when option -P (playback from binary
data file) is used. The -F option causes playback not to stop at
end of file but rather to wait for additional data to be avail-
able from the input file.
This option is useful when trace data is accumulated in binary
format (to save disk space) but a monitoring functionality is
desired. (default off).
-P Read undecoded binary trace data from file instead from device
(default off).
-R Use unit as the receiving interface unit number in analyze mode.
-T Use unit as the transmitting interface unit number in analyze
mode.
When the USR1 signal is sent to a isdntrace process, the currently used
logfiles are reopened, so that logfile rotation becomes possible.
The trace output should be obvious. It is very handy to have the follow-
ing standard texts available when tracing ISDN protocols:
I.430 ISDN BRI layer 1 protocol description.
Q.921 ISDN D-channel layer 2 protocol description.
Q.931 ISDN D-channel layer 3 protocol description.
1TR6 German-specific ISDN layer 3 protocol description. (NOTICE:
decoding of the 1TR6 protocol is included but not supported
since i dont have any longer access to a 1TR6 based ISDN
installation.)
isdntrace automatically detects the layer 3 protocol being used by look-
ing at the Protocol Discriminator (see: Q.931/1993 pp. 53).
/dev/isdntrc<n>
The device file(s) used to get the trace messages for ISDN card
unit <n> out of the kernel.
The command:
isdntrace -f /var/tmp/isdn.trace
will start D channel tracing on passive controller 0 with all except B
channel tracing enabled and logs everything into the output file
/var/tmp/isdn.trace-yymmdd-hhmmss (where yymmdd and hhmmss are replaced
by the current date and time values).
isdnd(8)
ITU Recommendations I.430, Q.920, Q.921, Q.930, Q.931
FTZ Richtlinie 1TR3, Band III
ITU Recommendation Q.932 (03/93), Q.950 (03/93)
ETSI Recommendation ETS 300 179 (10/92), ETS 300 180 (10/92)
ETSI Recommendation ETS 300 181 (04/93), ETS 300 182 (04/93)
ITU Recommendation X.208, X.209
The isdntrace utility was written by Gary Jennejohn and
Hellmuth Michaelis.
This manual page was written by
Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@kts.org>.
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