wireshark & GSMTAP

To be able to analyze the GSMTAP frames on wireshark, apply the patches to the development version.

preconditions

Tools and libraries used:

sudo aptitude install build-essential autoconf subversion libtool
sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libpcap-dev bison flex

getting wireshark

Get the latest sources from SVN:

svn co https://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk/ wireshark

applying patches

• for osmocomBB itself (already included since wireshark 1.4)

  patch -p0 < osmocom-bb/src/wireshark/gsmtap.patch
  patch -p0 < osmocom-bb/src/wireshark/smscb.patch
  

• for SIMtrace (introduced in wireshark  2012-02-05, available since wireshark 1.7.1):

  patch -p0 < simtrace/wireshark/simcard.patch
  

compiling and installing

cd wireshark/
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..