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Harald Welte abc6dd83bc 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.

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contrib test: Add tls config file and enable tls a bit 2016-09-08 16:24:04 +02:00
debian Rename osmo_pcap_{client_server} executables to osmo-pcap-{client,server} 2017-07-21 15:21:01 +02:00
doc doc: Add initial documentation for the tls support 2016-09-08 16:17:02 +02:00
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.travis.yml client: Initial support for TLS in the client 2016-09-08 16:16:55 +02:00
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README.md Mention the packages available 2016-01-18 14:25:19 +01:00
TLS_TODO tls: Add initial ideas about TLS in the client/server 2016-09-08 15:48:02 +02:00
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README.md

osmo-pcap distributed network capture

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.

osmo-pcap-client

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.

osmo-pcap-server

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.

Installation and Configuration

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

Wishlist/TODO

  • Add non-blocking TLS (probably GNUtls) support between client and server.
  • Improve the clean-up script, maybe re-write in python with exteral configuration.
  • Add hooks to the server to have an application receive all packages

Author and License

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.