SIP Capture with Wireshark
This chapter provides guidance on how to set up Wireshark for effective SIP monitoring with anynode and what to watch out for during installation and configuration.
While Wireshark is ideal for quick, local diagnostics, the HEP protocol allows SIP signaling to be exported in a structured way to external systems for deeper, long-term analysis. This expands troubleshooting beyond local captures and provides a scalable method for collecting and reviewing SIP data across distributed environments.
To analyze SIP signaling traffic from anynode, Wireshark can be used in combination with the HEP (Homer Encapsulation Protocol) version 3. However, there are important considerations when installing and configuring Wireshark, especially on Windows systems. The reason is that the HEPv3 protocol used by anynode is not natively supported by any standard application on Windows, including Wireshark itself.
Therefore, additional setup steps or custom plugins may be necessary to properly capture and decode HEP traffic.
HEPv3 offers more payload flexibility, stronger security, better correlation, higher scalability, and modern extensibility compared to its predecessors. It is designed to handle the complexity and volume of today’s SIP and real-time communication environments.