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Establishing an H.323 connection - Wireshark Tutorial
From the course: Analyzing VoIP Traffic with Wireshark
Establishing an H.323 connection
- [Instructor] H.323 acts as a wrapper for media control and setup and was one of the first VoIP protocols developed and used by vendors. However, it's less popular since the development of sip but it's still in use today. In this segment, we'll focus on what transpires when establishing an H.323 connection. Now the call setup begins first with the connection established using Q.931, and then after that you see the call established using H.245 and then you see the media stream with RTP. In this segment, we can see an example of the call set up using Q.931. If you'd like to follow along, go to this website and you'll download and extract rtp_example.raw which is found right here and then you'll open it in Wire Shark. Now, once I brought it into Wire Shark, I saved it in a PCAP Next Generation format. Now within this capture, we see an example of this wrapper and some of the protocols within H.323. Now prior to our…
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