I only know of 2 such systems. 1 from Nice and the other from Eyretel (now part of Witness). The Nice solution has a option to sniff on a network hub, while the Eyretel requires a span port on a Cisco switch.

The way these systems work is quite straightforward. When a call is connected, the IP PBX sends the endpoints to be recorded to the recorder. The recorder just captures all the RTP packets originating from the end points. The scheme is easy to implement in a hub environment. In a switched environment, things are more complicated; that's where the span port comes in.

To use the span port, the network admin must manually configure the switch to copy packets to/from the target ports to the span port. I suspect the span port might get saturated very easily. Forwarding 2 ports produces a maximum bandwidth of 200Mbps to be copied into the 100Mbps span port, add another few more ports and it'll skyrocket. Guess you'll need more switches to support large scale recording.

I was toying with the idea of using arp-spoofing, man-in-the-middle attack, to build a sniffing recorder. But, it will have a similar saturation problem like the span port method.

Just my $0.02.


lists wrote:

True * answer are there but what about non * network sniffering call
monitoring. Does anyone have info on a good one.  I am also searching
voip-info again but so far my key words are hitting on * solutions only

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It's in the Bible...

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php


Still, I'd be interested to find a solution for recording via sniffing over the net. My solution was to have my asterisk pbx's monitor directory connect to my "recording server" via a nfs mount, but that's a raggedy ann way of doing it.

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how can you record calls with asterisk?
I didn't even know this was possible
can some one point me to a url for info on this?
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Ok assuming I don't want to record calls using * but instead want a
dedicated server that listens to a mirror port and records calls. Is there


a


cheap software package out there for doing this for mgcp/sccp? I know
if evern cut over to * there is a way but I doubt I will even cut 100% over


to


* so I was wonder what the list has heard of for call recording via


sniffing


my gates. I know there are some out there but $100k for 40 users is
to


high


for my blood.

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the right account.

Either that or someone switched the coffee pot to decaf again.


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