This sequence diagram looks at LTE Attach and EPS Bearer Setup from the S1AP vantage point. The following signaling is covered:
You can click on individual messages in the sequence diagram to see field level details.
Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is the standard for voice call setup in LTE networks. When VoLTE is deployed, phones will not need to fallback to 3G for voice calls.
VoLTE uses IMS SIP signaling to set up voice calls. The following VoLTE call flow describes the IMS call setup and release. An example of sending an SMS over IMS is also included. Sample RTP and RTCP messages are also shown in the flow.
As a high school student, I loved biology. I loved learning about the natural world and how our bodies function. The spleen was my friend — not to mention the pancreas, liver, and lungs.
Unlike many of my classmates, I didn’t mind dissecting frogs and the obligatory fetal pig. Okay, I wasn’t overly fond of the smell of formaldehyde, but it was mesmerizing cutting into the skin and exploring what lurked below.
I look upon SIP in a very similar fashion except instead of using a knife, my dissection tool of choice is Wireshark. Followers of this blog should already know that from reading my article, How to Debug SIP. Wireshark is powerful software that not only captures SIP packets, but displays them in a very readable manner. On top of that, you can also capture and replay audio streams. If you want to call yourself a SIP professional…
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The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an inter-autonomous system routing protocol. An autonomous system is a group of networks under common administrative control and routing policies.
This sequence diagram describes the sequence of messages exchanged when a new BGP router is made operational. The steps involved are:
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is a routing protocol that is used as an interior gateway protocol in large enterprises.
Here is a sequence diagram that describes the message exchange that takes place when a new OSPF router comes online. You can click on any message in the flow to see full message contents.
Covered sequence:
OSPF router startup and link status update
Introducing VisualEther Protocol Analyzer 6.1. Diagnose and debug Wireshark logs with sequence diagrams. Convert PCAP files into sequence diagrams and call flow diagrams by just defining the message fields that should be included in the diagrams. VisualEther takes of the rest, generating a well formatted sequence diagram. You can click on individual messages in the sequence diagram to see field level details.
VisualEther 6.1 adds the following features:
Generate sequence diagrams and call flow diagrams from Wireshark output. The sequence diagrams provide a visual trace of the packet flow between different nodes.
Use regular expressions to identify and flag error scenarios. Messages reporting session failure can be bookmarked in a PDF file, thus giving you quick access to the cause of failure. Protocol experts can identify the error scenarios upfront to speed up protocol debugging.
Define templates to select messages and the fields to be included in the generated diagrams. VisualEther analyzes the Wireshark output to generate documents that match the defined template. The template is defined as a simple XML file.
Support for IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet and Wifi is built in. TCP, UDP and SCTP transport layer support is also available out of the box.
You can customize the templates for any protocol that has an Wireshark dissector. Any custom source and destination addresses can be used to define the sequence diagram instance axes.
Click on any message in PDF sequence diagrams. VisualEther shows you complete field level details of that message in a browser window.
The message nodes can be expanded and collapsed. This way you can focus on the part of the message that interests you.
Reverse engineering system design by analyzing the message flow in an operational system. Design documents are generated from the Wireshark traces. The generated documents can be edited and reformatted using EventStudio System Designer.
Automate capture of Wireshark logs with tshark and then use the VisualEther command-line mode to generate sequence diagrams and context diagrams.
Learn how IKEv2 signaling is used to establish an IPSec VPN tunnel.
IKE performs mutual authentication between two parties and establishes an IKE security association (SA) that includes shared secret information that can be used to efficiently establish SAs for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) or Authentication Header (AH) and a set of cryptographic algorithms to be used by the SAs to protect the traffic that they carry.
An example of IKEv2 handshake and an IPSec tunnel transport is illustrated with the sequence diagram. You can click on IKE messages in the sequence diagram to see field level details.
The following sequence of Virtual Private Network (VPN) setup are covered:
